Former West Bengal deputy speaker and five-time Rampurhat MLA Asish Banerjee was found dead at a Trinamool Congress office in Birbhum.<\/p>\n
Former West Bengal Assembly deputy speaker and Trinamool Congress leader Asish Banerjee was found dead at a party office next to his residence in Rampurhat, Birbhum district, on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
Police said his body was found hanging and was sent for postmortem. A large crowd gathered outside the Trinamool Congress office after news of his death spread.<\/p>\n
Asish Banerjee had served as the deputy speaker of the West Bengal Assembly when Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee was the state\u2019s chief minister. He was also a five-time MLA from Rampurhat.<\/p>\n
He had served as Bengal\u2019s education and agriculture minister after Mamata Banerjee\u2019s Trinamool Congress first came to power in the state.<\/p>\n
Banerjee contested the West Bengal Assembly election earlier this year but lost the Rampurhat seat to BJP\u2019s Dhruba Saha.<\/p>\n
Banerjee stepped down as chairman of the Trinamool Congress\u2019s Birbhum district core committee in June. At the time, he said he would continue as a general member of the party.<\/p>\n
He lived in the Hattalapara neighbourhood of Rampurhat, with the party office where his body was found located next to his house.<\/p>\n
The BJP won six of the 11 Assembly constituencies in Birbhum in the latest state election. This marked a significant change from 2021, when the Trinamool Congress had won 10 seats in the district while the BJP had secured one.<\/p>\n
Police have sent Asish Banerjee\u2019s body for postmortem as the circumstances surrounding his death are being investigated.<\/p>\n
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