Former deputy speaker of Bengal meeting Ashis Banerjee was discovered lifeless on the Trinamool Congress workplace close to his residence in Rampurhat in Birbhum on Sunday morning, police mentioned, information company PTI reported.
A purported suicide be aware has additionally been recovered from the get together workplace and his lifeless physique has been despatched for autopsy examination, police mentioned. The precise circumstances resulting in his demise are but to be ascertained.
The TMC MLA had resigned from the publish of chairman of get together’s Birbhum district core committee in June this 12 months, weeks after the Mamata Banerjee-led get together confronted crushing defeat by the hands of the BJP in assembly elections.
Ashis additionally misplaced his seat within the polls after serving as a deputy speaker of the Bengal meeting through the TMC’s final stint. He was a five-time MLA and represented Rampurhat within the state Meeting constantly from 2001 until 2026.
He had served because the deputy speaker of the Meeting and held ministerial portfolios, together with faculty schooling and agriculture, within the Mamata Banerjee authorities.
He contested the 2026 Meeting elections from Rampurhat on a TMC ticket however misplaced to BJP’s Dhruva Saha by greater than 24,000 votes.
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