Published on: May 08, 2026 7:55:29 AM IST Suvendu Adhikari, a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal state, arrives at Barasat Government Medical College where the post-mortem of his aid Chandranath Rath is underway. West Bengal CM announcement LIVE: West Bengal governor R N Ravi dissolved the state legislative assembly on Thursday, May 7. The dissolution of the assembly comes after the Bharatiya Janata Party’s landslide win in the West Bengal assembly election and Mamata Banerjee’s refusal to resign as chief minister. In escalating tensions in West Bengal, BJP leader and CM hopeful Suvendu Adhikari’s personal assistant, Chandranath Rath, was shot dead by bike-borne assailants at Madhyamgram of West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas late on Wednesday. Rath’s body was brought to his hometown in Purba Medinipur district on Thursday. He had suffered bullet injuries to the head, chest, and abdomen, following which he was rushed to a hospital but was declared dead. The bike reportedly used by the assailants during attack on Suvendu Adhikari’s aide has been recovered by West Bengal …