Trinamool Congress’s Ashis Banerjee was found dead at a party office in Birbhum district near his residence in Rampurhat on Sunday morning.
He allegedly died by suicide as the police said a suicide note had been recovered from the spot.
Describing Ashis’s death as sad and shocking, TMC spokesperson Nilanjan Das shared an image of the purported suicide note on X in which Ashis hinted at being falsely implicated in corruption cases. Seventy-five-year-old Ashis was a five-time TMC MLA and had joined politics when he was a student at Burdwan University. The Bharatiya Janata Party, which swept the Bengal assembly polls in May, recently alleged that financial corruption had been detected at the Tarapith Rampurhat Development Authority (TRDA) and Banerjee was involved in it.
he won the Rampurhat assembly seat five times in a row from 2001 to 2021 Although he was an associate lecturer of Bengali at Rampurhat College. He also served as a state agriculture minister in Mamata Banerjee’s cabinet and was the assembly’s deputy speaker from 2021 until May 2026.
“Many people joined politics inspired by him. This is a loss not just to Birbhum but to the entire West Bengal… “I sought his blessings after winning the seat.
Probably his name was maligned by the opposition party, according to his suicide note. An investigation should be held on the basis of the suicide note,” Samirul said. He did not appear to be a person who would die by suicide,” Saha said after Ashis’s death.
