{"id":324631,"date":"2020-07-13T06:03:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T06:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324631"},"modified":"2020-07-13T06:03:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T06:03:10","slug":"west-bengal-bjp-mla-debendra-nath-ray-found-hanging-in-north-dinajpur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/west-bengal-bjp-mla-debendra-nath-ray-found-hanging-in-north-dinajpur\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal BJP MLA Debendra Nath Ray found hanging in North Dinajpur"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_304184\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-304184\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-304184\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/lynch-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch-.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--696x348.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--1068x534.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--840x420.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-304184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">West Bengal\u00a0BJP\u00a0MLA Debendra Nath Ray was found hanging near his home in Hemtabad area of North Dinajpur district on Monday morning, police sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The market where Ray was found hanging is about one kilometre away from his home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the deceased\u2019s family, the BJP MLA was murdered and then hanged. However, police said the cause of death will be ascertained after post-mortem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The body has been sent to a hospital in Raiganj for post-mortem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP President JP Nadda in a tweet said, \u201cThe suspected heinous killing of Debendra Nath Ray, BJP MLA from Hemtabad in West Bengal, is extremely shocking and deplorable. This speaks of the Gunda Raj &amp; failure of law and order in the Mamta govt. People will not forgive such a govt in the future. We strongly condemn this.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya said, &#8220;It is a condemnable and cowardly act. During the rule of Mamata Banerjee, the killings of BJP leaders have become the order of the day. Debendra Nath Ray, MLA from Hemtabad was killed. His body was found hanging. Was joining BJP his only crime?&#8221; Vijayvargiya tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Roy had contested and won the 2016 Assembly polls on a CPM ticket but had joined the BJP last year.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal\u00a0BJP\u00a0MLA Debendra Nath Ray was found hanging near his home in Hemtabad area of North Dinajpur district on Monday morning, police sources said. The market where Ray was found hanging is about one kilometre away from his home. According to the deceased\u2019s family, the BJP MLA was murdered and then hanged. However, police said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":304184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2014,2917],"tags":[453,13188,411],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324632,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324631\/revisions\/324632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}