{"id":9935,"date":"2020-07-13T17:10:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T11:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=9935"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:07:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:37:32","slug":"bengal-bjp-mla-debendra-nath-ray-found-hanging-in-market-cid-takes-over-probe-bjp-demands-cbi-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/bengal-bjp-mla-debendra-nath-ray-found-hanging-in-market-cid-takes-over-probe-bjp-demands-cbi-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengal BJP MLA Debendra Nath Ray found hanging in market, CID takes over probe, BJP demands CBI investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA from West Bengal was found dead in an open varandah outside a shop in a market close to his house at Balia in Raigunj of Uttar Dinajpur district. The MLA from Hemtabad Assembly seat, Debendra Nath Ray, was found with a suicide note, said police. Police said that two persons had been named in the suicide note and a probe is on.<\/p>\n<p>His family members however, said that he was called by someone at around 1 am, and had left his house due to this reason. Local people spotted the body in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>BJP chief JP Nadda took to Twitter to condemn the death. The Bengal wing of the BJP has alleged that he was murdered, and demanded a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The state government has handed over the probe to the West Bengal Police\u2019s Criminal Investigation Department (CID).<\/p>\n<p>Ray had contested the Hemtabad assembly seat on a CPM ticket (backed by the Congress) in 2016, and had switched to the BJP in 2019 after the Lok Sabha elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He had won on a CPIM ticket and joined the BJP last year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":9936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,46,108],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal","8":"tag-bjp","9":"tag-trinamool-congress","10":"tag-west-bengal-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9935"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=9935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}