Nawsad Siddique, the lone MLA of the Indian Secular Front (ISF), on Saturday slammed both the BJP and Trinamul for their alleged lack of seriousness over the suicide by a tribal university student from Malda last month.

Relatives of Uttam Mardi, 22, a PG student of history in North Bengal University, had alleged that the student had killed himself for failing to bear the agony at the university hostel. Family members had alleged Uttam was virtually ragged by his hostel seniors.

The student, who got 83 per cent in BA, hanged himself at his home in Seeshadanga village, Gazole, on October 16, a week after enrolling in the university.

Siddique on Saturday met his family members.

“Trinamul and BJP made much hue and cry when another meritorious youth was ragged and allegedly killed in Jadavpur University,” said Siddique, who alleged that the two parties tried to reap political advantage from the JU case where a 17-year-old student of the Bengali department died after falling from a second-floor balcony of the main boys’ hostel on August 9.

“When a similar incident occurred in North Bengal University the BJP and Trinamul remained virtually mute since they would not get any political mileage out of this,” the ISF MLA alleged.

He also slammed the police and varsity authorities.

“The police... ask incongruous questions to the bereaved relatives.... Similarly, the NBU authorities did not even make any courtesy call to the bereaved family members,” Siddiqui said.

The ISF leader later told the media that his party would take up the issue in Calcutta High Court.