Former West Bengal Deputy Speaker Asish Banerjee Found Dead at TMC Office; Family Voices Doubt, Purported Note Recovered
Dr. Asish Banerjee, 74, a former deputy speaker of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly and a five-time Trinamool Congress (TMC) legislator from Rampurhat, was found hanging inside a party office attached to his residence in Birbhum district's Hattala Para locality on Sunday morning, police told multiple news agencies. Officers recovered a one-page, purportedly handwritten note from the scene; his body was sent for a post-mortem examination, and investigators have not confirmed the note's authorship or the precise circumstances of his death. Birbhum Superintendent of Police Vidit Raj Bhundesh described the case as “primarily” being treated as a suicide, with a note recovered at the scene, though police stressed the investigation was continuing. Reports differ slightly on how the body was discovered: some accounts describe the room as having been found locked, while Banerjee's brother, Prasanta Banerjee, told reporters that family members first noticed a rope through a g...