BJP's Suvendu Adhikari, whose personal assistant Chandranath Rath was shot dead on Wednesday, lost two close aides in 2013 and 2018 in mysterious circumstances. Pradip Jha, Adhikari's ex-personal assistant, was found dead on Kolkata's Strand Road in 2013. In 2018, his bodyguard Subhabrata Chakraborty was found with a gunshot wound to head inside police barracks located opposite Adhikari's home.