BJP MP Abhijit Gangopadhyay critically ill, hospitalised

BJP leader and former Calcutta High Court judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay. | Photo Credit: PTI

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator and former Judge of the Calcutta High Court, Abhijit Gangopadhyay, fell critically ill with acute pancreatitis and has been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a private medical facility in Kolkata.

Hospital officials said the 63-year-old Lok Sabha MP was admitted on Saturday (June 14, 2025) with complaints of vomiting, abdominal pain, and abdominal distension.

“On the third day of admission, Mr. Gangopadhyay, who was diagnosed to be suffering from acute pancreatitis with gastrointestinal sepsis, remains under close observation in the ICU. His condition has improved in the last 24 hours,” Managing Director and CEO of Woodlands Multispeciality Hospital, Rupak Barua, said in a statement on Monday (June 16, 2025).

The statement further mentioned the formation of a multidisciplinary medical board, comprising an internal medicine and critical care specialist, cardiologist, pulmonologist, endocrinologist, gastroenterologist, and gastrointestinal surgeon.

State president of the BJP and Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar visited Mr. Gangopadhyay at the hospital along with other party leaders on Monday.

Mr. Gangopadhyay was elected to the Lok Sabha in 2024 from Tamluk constituency in Purba Medinipur district of West Bengal. Formerly, he was a judge in the Calcutta High Court till he resigned in 2024 and announced that he was joining the BJP.

It is worth noting that during his tenure as a Calcutta High Court judge, he had ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in 2022 to probe the irregularities in the recruitment of teaching and non-teaching staff by the SSC and West Bengal Board of Secondary Education.

A single-judge Bench comprising the former judge had also passed an order in 2023, dismissing job appointments of nearly 32,000 primary school teachers hired by the SSC in 2016, due to irregularities in the selection process.

Published - June 17, 2025 08:25 am IST