India, Oct. 9 -- Six people were arrested from north Bengal in connection with the alleged assaults on a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lok Sabha member and a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) on September 6, and another BJP MLA a day later, police said on Thursday.

The accused - Etwa Oraon, Govind Sharma, Akramul Haque, Sahanur Alam, and Tofayel Hossain - all residents of West Bengal's Khayerbari, were arrested between Wednesday and Thursday afternoon, district superintendent of police Khandbahale Umesh Ganpath said.

According to police officers, five people were arrested for allegedly attacking BJP's North Malda lawmaker Khagen Murmu and Siliguri MLA Shankar Ghosh in the Nagrakata assembly constituency in Bengal's Jalpaiguri dist...