The Trinamool Congress has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Odisha government of ‘watching and enabling a State-engineered ethnic purge’ in Odisha’s Malkangiri MV-26 village, where violence erupted between the tribal and the Bengali-speaking populations after a tribal woman’s headless body was recovered from a river.
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On Sunday afternoon (December 8, 2025), a large mob of thousands of tribal people from Rakhelguda village allegedly charged into the Malkangiri MV-26 village with traditional weapons and torched several houses. Over 100 families residing in the village were affected in the attack as per reports.
The Trinamool Congress in a social media post on Thursday accused the BJP of “making its contempt for Bengalis a core ideological principle” and the Mohan Majhi government of abdicating its constitutional duty when the violence erupted.
“BJP has been conditioning people to treat Bengalis as outsiders, infiltrators, and enemies. MV-26 is simply the grotesque outcome of that poisonous indoctrination. When you reduce an entire community to a stereotype, violence becomes a policy outcome,” the Trinamool alleged in a post on X.
