After BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari's personal assistant, Chandranath Rath, was shot dead in West Bengal's Madhyamgram two days after BJP defeated TMC in Assembly polls, Adhikari said, "This is a personal loss of mine." "Had I not won in Bhabanipur...he would not have been targeted," he added. Adhikari defeated TMC chief Mamata Banerjee from the Bhabanipur seat by 15,105 votes.