Overview

• Trinamool Congress supporters blocked and heckled BJP MLAs during their Friday visit to Dinhata’s Salmara area, accusing them of stoking communal and migrant-rights tensions.
• An FIR filed by the BJP names 42 individuals, including North Bengal Development Minister Udayan Guha, over the August 7 assault on Purabi Barman’s home.
• The BJP reports that Purabi Barman has delivered a baby girl in Siliguri and that both mother and newborn are in stable condition.
• BJP leaders have lodged formal complaints with the National Commission for Women and the National Commission for Scheduled Castes and plan to seek legal redress in court.
• Trinamool leaders deny any party involvement in the attack and attribute the protests to villagers’ anger over BJP rhetoric on migrants and minority communities.