Agartala, Jan 7: Dissident BJP MLA and former Minister Sudip Roy Barman on Friday demanded that the attackers of Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Mujibur Islam Majumdar, who succumbed to his injuries at SSKM hospital in Kolkata on Wednesday, be charged with Section 302 (murder charge) of IPC.

Barman, who is a strong critic of Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, after visiting the family members of Majumdar at Badarghat, near here, demanded that the 302 section of the Indian Penal Code must be slapped on the attackers as he (Majumdar), according the BJP legislator, was murdered.

“After severely attacking Majumdar on August 28, the attackers knocked him down on the ground and then cruelly kicked on his chest. I knew him (Majumdar) since my childhood,” said Barman, who was accompanied by another dissident BJP MLA, Ashis Kumar Saha.

He said that Majumdar suffered multiple fractures in his hands and legs during the August attack.

The Trinamool Congress in a statement had said that Mazumdar, 56, was brutally attacked by BJP workers and goons at Badarghat in western Tripura when he took part in Trinamool Chhatra Parishad’s foundation day event on August 28 last year.

Subsequently, Majumdar, the younger brother of a BJP state committee member, was shifted to the SSKM hospital in Kolkata where he was undergoing treatment. He passed away on Wednesday morning, the statement said.

“We demand justice for Mazumdar,” the statement added.

Majumdar, a former President of the Tripura unit of NSUI, had joined the Trinamool last year along with several other Congress leaders.

The death of Majumdar has triggered strong reaction from Trinamool, which demanded stern action against the attackers. Tripura Trinamool chief Subal Bhowmik demanded exemplary punishment to the accused who had assaulted Majumdar.

However, the ruling BJP strongly denied Trinamool’s accusations.