In the quiet of a Sunday morning in Birbhum, a five-term legislator and former deputy speaker was found dead at a party office, a purported suicide note beside him. Asish Banerjee, 69, had spent decades in public life — as educator, minister, and elected representative — only to face, in his final months, the twin losses of electoral defeat and party standing. His death arrives at a moment when the political ground beneath his party in Birbhum has shifted sharply, and it asks, as such moments always do, what we owe those who give their lives to public service when the institutions they served
Former West Bengal Deputy Speaker Found Dead at TMC Office After Poll Loss
Asish Banerjee, a prominent 69-year-old politician and former deputy speaker, died by apparent suicide following electoral defeat and political setbacks.