Anirban Ganguly, a senior BJP leader from West Bengal, said the knife‑edge assault on two of his party’s top officials in Bamandanga, Jalpaiguri district, was pre‑planned and called for a full investigation.
The attack happened while BJP MP Khagen Murmu and MLA Sankar Ghosh were on a flood‑relief tour in the North Bengal area. Ganguly said the assault seemed staged to paint the leaders as mob‑litigated victims, and that even another BJP member, Samik Bhattacharya, was mentioned as a target.
He accused local police of protecting the attackers and urged the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to take over the probe. “The police should have been more proactive,” Ganguly told after meeting with the wounded MP and visiting the hospitalized MLA.
The incident has sparked a political row. The BJP is now eyeing the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) as a suspect in the plot. A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Calcutta High Court’s vacation bench over Murmu’s assault. The bench approved the case and it will be heard on October 14.
Authorities are still gathering evidence, but the BJP insists that a deeper investigation is needed to uncover who arranged the attack and why.
Source: aninews
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