India, May 7 -- Bharatiya Janata Party leader and West Bengal next chief minister potential Suvendu Adhikari suffered a major loss on Wednesday night after his personal assistant and close aide Chandranath Rath was shot dead in Madhyamgram in North 24 Parganas district. However, this is not the first time Adhikari's personal assistant has died of unnatural cause.

Back in 2013, when Adhikari was a member of Trinamool Congress and was serving as a Member of Parliament from Tamluk, his former personal assistant Pradip Jha was found dead on a pavement on Kolkata's Strang Road on August 3, 2013.

Jha worked as personal assistant for not just Adhikari but another TMC MLA as well, Haji Nurul Islam, who died in 2024.

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