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Amid surging post-poll unit successful West Bengal, BJP person Suvendu Adhikari’s idiosyncratic adjunct was changeable dormant by unidentified gunmen successful Madhyamgram country successful the State’s North 24 Parganas territory connected Wednesday (May 6, 2026). Chandranath Rath was changeable connected Wednesday nighttime (May 6, 2026) and sustained terrible injuries. He was taken to a infirmary and was declared dead. He was intimately associated with Mr. Adhikari for a agelong time.
Mr. Rath was reportedly changeable 3 times astatine constituent blank scope successful the district’s Madhyamgram area.
The shooters are yet to beryllium identified and were reportedly motorcycle borne. The deceased was travelling successful a four-wheeler.
Earlier successful the day, Mr. Adhikari had called for calm against the post-poll unit successful the State. The West Bengal BJP leadership, including State president Samik Bhattacharya and Mr. Adhikari, person urged enactment supporters to shun violence.
At slightest 2 radical were killed and 433 arrested successful incidents related to post-poll unit successful the State. One decease was reported from Nanoor successful Birbhum territory portion different from the New Town country connected the northeastern fringes of Kolkata. While a BJP worker, Madhu Mondal, died aft being allegedly beaten up by Trinamool Congress cadre during a triumph procession successful New Town connected Tuesday (May 5, 2026) evening, Trinamool idiosyncratic Abir Sheikh was hacked to decease allegedly by BJP activists successful Birbhum the aforesaid day. There person been reports of much deaths successful violence, including 1 successful Howrah, which the constabulary person not confirmed yet.
Meanwhile, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar connected Wednesday (May 6, 2026) directed the West Bengal Chief Secretary, DGP, and Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) deployed successful the State to guarantee zero tolerance towards post-poll violence. He directed the authorities acrophobic to instantly apprehension those progressive successful unit and vandalism.
