Bhubaneswar, July 1 -- Odisha BJP President Manmohan Samal today suspended five party workers for their involvement in the assault of senior OAS officer and Additional Commissioner of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC), Ratikanta Sahoo.

The suspended members include Corporator Aparup Narayan Raut, Rashmi Ranjan Mohapatra, Debashish Pradhan, Sachikanth Swain, and Sanjeev Mishra.All of them have been suspended from the primary membership of the party.

Of the five, three-Raut, Mohapatra, and Pradhan-have already been arrested by police in connection with the brutal attack on Sahoo.

According to reports, the BMC Additional Commissioner was dragged out of his office chamber while conducting a weekly public grievance hearing. The attacke...