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Five persons person been arrested successful transportation with the onslaught connected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmakers astatine flood-hit Nagrakata earlier this week, Jalpaiguri Superintendent of Police (SP) Khandbahale Umesh Ganpat told The Hindu connected Thursday.
The accused - Etwa Oraon alias Dharea (40), Govind Sharama (42), Akramul Haque, Sahanur Alam alias Mannan (30), and Tofayel Hossain alias Milan (36) - are each residents of Khayerbari successful Nagrakata, the SP said. They were arrested betwixt Wednesday (October 8, 2025) and Thursday (October 9, 2025), 48 to 72 hours aft the incident.
On Monday, BJP MP from Malda Uttar Khagen Murmu and MLA and Chief Opposition Whip of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly Shankar Ghosh were attacked by a radical of radical during their sojourn to the flood-hit area.
Mr. Murmu sustained terrible injuries and bleeding from his face. Both helium and Mr. Ghosh were hospitalised successful Siliguri. Their conveyance was besides vandalised.
“Not a azygous idiosyncratic named successful the First Information Report was arrested,” Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari alleged connected Wednesday extracurricular the Assembly. “Trinamool has handed these radical implicit to the constabulary due to the fact that determination is unit from the ST Commission and the [Lok Sabha Speaker],” helium said.
Mr. Adhikari added that a petition had been submitted to the abrogation seat of the Calcutta High Court seeking a probe into the incidental by a Central agency.
Separately, a nationalist involvement litigation (PIL) was filed earlier the part bench, seeking an probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and initiation of proceedings nether the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. Both pleas are apt to beryllium heard adjacent week.
The arrests came aft West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose said connected Tuesday that the State authorities should apprehension the culprits wrong 24 hours. Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Kiren Rijiju, during a sojourn to flood-hit Darjeeling, besides said the Lok Sabha Speaker had sought an urgent study from the State authorities connected the incident.
Responding to BJP’s allegations, Trinamool Congress spokesperson Joy Prakash Majumdar described Mr. Adhikari’s remarks arsenic “preposterous and condemnable.”
“If the ailment made by BJP leaders naming definite radical does not lucifer the arrests, past constabulary volition person to look questions from the court, wherever they volition nutrient the accused and the lawsuit diaries… [The BJP] should permission it to the tribunal of law. The constabulary is simply a portion of instrumentality enforcement that is answerable and accountable to the tribunal of law. These radical are unnecessarily politicising the full matter,” Mr. Majumdar told The Hindu.
Trinamool continues combat successful Tripura
A Trinamool Congress delegation visited the bureau of the Tripura Governor connected Thursday and submitted a written memorandum concerning the onslaught connected the enactment bureau successful Agartala connected Tuesday evening, allegedly by BJP workers.
“We could not conscionable the Governor due to the fact that helium had to permission for Delhi this morning. However, we met his caput Mr. Chakma and discussed the substance with him. We besides submitted a memorandum with our demands,” Trinamool spokesperson Kunal Ghosh, a subordinate of the delegation, said connected Thursday.
In the memorandum submitted to Raj Bhavan, the enactment demanded an contiguous judicial enquiry into the October 7 attack, swift apprehension and prosecution of the culprits, accountability of constabulary and civilian administration, capable information for its workers successful Tripura, and a “public reaffirmation by the State authorities and instrumentality enforcement agencies of their law work to support Opposition parties and safeguard antiauthoritarian freedoms.”
Mr. Ghosh added that the delegation had besides met the Director General of Police successful Tripura the erstwhile day. On Thursday, they filed a ailment regarding the vandalism astatine their office.
