Deputy Speaker

Birbhum (Gurpreet Singh): Senior Trinamool Congress leader and former Deputy Speaker of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly Asish Banerjee was found dead on Sunday morning inside a party office adjacent to his residence at Hattala Para in Rampurhat, Birbhum district. Local police recovered his body hanging inside the locked premises and subsequently sent it to the Rampurhat Medical College and Hospital for a mandatory post-mortem examination. Investigators recovered a handwritten note in Bengali from the spot, reportedly written on the former legislator's official letterhead. In the note, Banerjee maintained his innocence regarding allegations of financial irregularities, specifically denying involvement in…