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The Bharatiya Janata Party raised their transportation implicit the recent onslaught connected enactment lawmakers in flood-hit northbound Bengal, with Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju saying that the Lok Sabha talker has sought an urgent study connected the onslaught from the State government, during his sojourn to the affected portion connected Tuesday (October 7, 2025).
“Because of the brutal onslaught connected a Lok Sabha MP, the Lok Sabha talker has issued a announcement and sought an urgent study from the State government. We privation the West Bengal authorities to promptly taxable a crushed study truthful that we tin instrumentality further action,” Mr. Rijiju said to reporters astatine Siliguri successful northbound Bengal connected Tuesday.
He added that successful the lawsuit of a hold successful the submission of the report, BJP’s parliamentarians “will instrumentality indispensable action”.
“It is not conscionable astir an MP and MLA, each national should beryllium provided safety. Inside India, determination is simply a system, instrumentality and order. No 1 tin judge radical taking instrumentality and bid into their ain hands, moving a gundaraj, and assaulting different people,” the Union Minister said.
On Monday (October 6, 2025), BJP MP from Malda Uttar, Khagen Murmu, had to beryllium hospitalised with terrible bleeding and caput injuries aft a delegation of BJP leaders was attacked with sticks and stones during their sojourn to flood-affected Nagrakata successful West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district. The conveyance carrying the MP and MLA, and the main Opposition Whip successful West Bengal Legislative Assembly Shankar Ghosh, was besides vandalised.
On Tuesday, Mr. Rijiju, on with Leader of Opposition of West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari and MP Raju Bista, visited flood-affected areas successful Darjeeling, peculiarly Mirik, which was deed astir severely by floods and landslides and witnessed the consequent illness of civic infrastructure, including a bridge. They besides met survivors and the families of those who passed distant successful the calamity.
BJP demands arrests, NIA probe
“Not a azygous idiosyncratic has been arrested for the onslaught connected our leaders astatine Nagrakata yesterday. The First Information Report was filed past night. We tin spot intelligibly connected video who the perpetrators are and we volition determination the abrogation seat of the Calcutta High Court if determination is nary apprehension by tonight,” the Leader of Opposition said connected Tuesday morning.
He aboriginal alleged that the incidental had taken spot owed to the “provocation” of the Chief Minister.
Meanwhile, the president of the West Bengal portion of the BJP, Samik Bhattacharya, connected Tuesday demanded a probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and warned Trinamool against “unleashing Bangladeshi infiltrators and Rohingyas to onslaught BJP workers”.
“Who are [the perpetrators]? They are not radical affected by the floods. They beryllium to Hajipara oregon Hajibasti. Everyone knows that the demography of that spot has changed successful the past 2 years. They were made to transportation retired a planned onslaught connected advisasis due to the fact that from that adivasi area, a BJP parliamentarian takes the pb [in polls],” Mr. Bhattacharya alleged.
He further claimed that the onslaught connected Mr. Murmu and Mr. Ghosh was orchestrated “entirely for governmental reasons”.
Governor C.V. Ananda Bose and BJP MP from Tripura, Biplab Kumar Deb, were among the dignitaries who visited the injured Mr. Murmu astatine the infirmary astatine Siliguri connected Tuesday. In the afternoon, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee besides made a astonishment visit.
Meanwhile, successful Kolkata, BJP carried retired a protestation rally against the onslaught astatine Dharmatala Crossing.
Trinamool retorts
Responding to the BJP’s charges, Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said, “Standing by the radical of West Bengal, supporting them during a earthy calamity, giving them their entitlements is not [the BJP’s] priority. They are looking for ways to prosecute successful authorities similar vultures. We person already condemned the onslaught connected BJP’s MP and MLA and said that this is not the close mode for radical to explicit resentment.”
He added that the people’s resentment has stemmed from instances specified arsenic the alleged non-disbursement of funds for the 100 days’ enactment strategy arsenic good arsenic the battle connected Bengali migrant workers successful different States.
“A BJP person was killed successful BJP-ruled Odisha. Whose instrumentality and bid are you talking about? The radical are already rejecting [the BJP], and they volition proceed to bash truthful if they support engaging successful authorities astatine a clip similar this,” Mr. Ghosh said.
