Bengal MLA who joined BJP found dead; Nadda, Governor raise ‘killing`
(WorldNews India)

The body of a West Bengal MLA was found hanging near his home in Bindal village of the state’s North Dinajpur district on Monday morning. Police found a suicide note in his shirt pocket, but members of the MLA’s family and the state BJP alleged that he had been murdered. Debendra Nath Ray, 55, had won the Hemtabad seat on a CPI-M ticket in the 2016 Assembly elections, but had joined the BJP along with several others soon after the Lok Sabha elections of 2019. He had not resigned his Assembly seat, however, and was technically still a CPI-M MLA. The BJP accused the Trinamool Congress of murdering Ray, and called a 12-hour bandh in North Bengal on Tuesday. BJP leaders met Governor...