fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week agoTensions high in West Bengal after BJP aide shot dead and hundreds arrested
Late on Wednesday evening, Chandranath Rath, an assistant to the head of the BJP in West Bengal, Suvendu Adhikari, was shot dead in his car just outside the state capital, Kolkata, by gunmen on a motorcycle. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. Suvendu Adhikari alleged that the killing was because he had defeated the incumbent chief minister Mamata Banerjee.
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