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West Bengal BJP MLA 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's family, the BJP MLA was murdered and then hanged. However, police said the cause of death will be ascertained after post-mortem.

The body has been sent to a hospital in Raiganj for post-mortem.

BJP President JP Nadda in a tweet said, "The 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 & failure of law and order in the Mamta govt. ...