KOLKATA: The attack on BJP Lok Sabha member from West Bengal, Khagen Murmu, who comes from a tribal background, exemplifies how the tribal population is "simply dispensable" in politics of selective outrage pursued not only by the Trinamool Congress but also by Congress and Left parties, the BJP stated on Wednesday.
BJP’s Information Technology Cell chief and the party’s central observer for West Bengal, Amit Malviya, issued a social media statement, where he questioned the silence of all the opposition parties in the country over the attack on Murmu, the two-time Lok Sabha member from Maldaha (Uttar) constituency in Malda district of West Bengal.
The vehicle of Murmu, and the party’s Chief Whip in West Bengal Assembly, Shankar Ghosh, was attacked on Monday at Bamundanga in Jalpaiguri district while they were on their way to Nagrakata in the same district with relief material for the flood-affected people there.