In Rampurhat, West Bengal, a man who had spent twenty-five years in service to his constituency and his party was found dead on Sunday — the apparent weight of a single electoral loss having extinguished a career built across five consecutive victories. Asish Banerjee, seventy-four, former Deputy Speaker and Agriculture Minister, had given his adult life to public office, and when that office was taken from him in the 2026 assembly elections, something essential seems to have gone with it. His death asks a question that politics rarely pauses to consider: what becomes of a person when the role
Former Bengal Deputy Speaker Asish Banerjee Found Dead in Rampurhat
A 74-year-old senior politician died by apparent suicide following electoral defeat after 25 years of consecutive electoral success.