‘Spoke to her on Tuesday’: TMC leader Subhrangsu Roy’s wife missing in Nepal floods

The wife of former Bijpur MLA Subhranshu Roy was part of a 30-member Kailash-Mansarovar pilgrimage group that lost contact after flash floods near the Nepal-China border.

2 min readKolkataAug 27, 2026 05:09 PM IST

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Sharmistha Bhowmik Roy had left Kolkata on August 21 as part of a 30-member Kailash-Mansarovar pilgrimage group. (Subhranshu Roy/Express Photo)

Sharmistha Bhowmik Roy, wife of Trinamool Congress leader Subhranshu Roy and daughter-in-law of late veteran politician Mukul Roy, is among those reported missing after catastrophic flash floods struck near the Nepal-China border.

Sharmistha had left Kolkata on August 21 as part of a 30-member Kailash-Mansarovar pilgrimage group and was reportedly around 10 km from the site of the deluge when communication with her was lost.

“I spoke to her at 11.30 pm on Tuesday; she was fine. She was somewhere called Kyirong. Since then, we have not been able to contact her,” Subhranshu told The Indian Express.

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“CM Suvendu Adhikari had called in the morning, and he has been in touch with me. The state is making every effort to trace them,” the former Bijpur MLA added.

Kyirong is the primary overland border port connecting Nepal and Tibet, serving as the main gateway route for the Kailash-Mansarovar Yatra.

Several others missing

The crisis unfolded after sudden glacial outbursts and heavy rain triggered severe flash flooding along the Bhotekoshi River basin in Nepal’s Rasuwa district. Torrential waters swept away remote border checkpoints, roadways, and lodging facilities, severing critical power lines and mobile network towers near the Kyirong land port.

Relatives of several other families across multiple districts, including Kolkata, Hooghly, South 24 Parganas, and Darjeeling, were travelling in the same border corridor. At least 32 to 36 tourists from the state remain out of contact.

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State authorities have set up 24/7 emergency control rooms and are coordinating with the Ministry of External Affairs and the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu to support trace-and-rescue operations.

The disaster has thrown trans-Himalayan transport into disarray, leaving over 1,000 travellers and pilgrims, including dozens of Indian nationals, temporarily unaccounted for or cut off from communication networks.

The Ministry of External Affairs said earlier in the day that 288 Indians were out of contact after the Nepal floods.

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