“I never indicated the Jiaganj murders had a political motive… It is a grisly incident, a heinous crime… And police are still clueless on the motive, yet to arrest anybody. Telegraph pictureThe BJP-RSS parivar seemed on the back foot on Friday over the Murshidabad triple murder, with state BJP chief Dilip Ghosh saying he had never said the killings were “political”. “I never indicated the Jiaganj murders had a political motive… It is a grisly incident, a heinous crime… And police are still clueless on the motive, yet to arrest anybody. On Tuesday, the bodies of primary schoolteacher Bandhuprakash Pal, 40, and his six-year-old son Bandhuangan were found in a room at their rented home in Jiaganj. “We are going to stage a sit-in demonstration on Saturday in front of the Gandhi statue on Mayo Road in Calcutta to protest the rising political murders, even during the festival, in Bengal,” said Ghosh.

Source: The Telegraph October 11, 2019 21:00 UTC