Former deputy speaker of West Bengal Meeting, Ashis Banerjee, was discovered hanging at a TMC social gathering workplace in Birbhum district on Sunday morning, police sources stated.
A purported suicide be aware was additionally recovered from the social gathering workplace positioned close to his residence in Hattala Para in Rampurhat, they stated.
Police reached the spot and despatched the physique for autopsy examination.
The precise circumstances resulting in his dying are but to be ascertained, and police are analyzing the contents of the purported suicide be aware, the sources stated.
Banerjee, a veteran TMC chief, had 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 training 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.
After his electoral defeat, Banerjee was not seen to be significantly lively in politics, social gathering sources stated.
Banerjee had been a distinguished TMC chief in Birbhum throughout the tenure of social gathering strongman Anubrata Mondal because the district president.
The event comes at a time when the political panorama in West Bengal has undergone a significant change following the TMC’s defeat within the meeting polls this 12 months ending its 15-year rule.
A number of former TMC legislators and leaders dealing with corruption-related investigations and arrests.
Police are investigating whether or not Banerjee died by suicide and, if that’s the case, what prompted him to take the acute step. The autopsy report and the contents of the purported be aware are anticipated to shed extra gentle on the circumstances surrounding his dying.
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