A close aide to West Bengal BJP chief Suvendu Adhikari has been shot dead near his home in Kolkata, in what party leaders have described as a cold-blooded killing.Chandranath Rath, 41, was attacked late on Wednesday after motorbikes blocked his vehicle, according to the supplied report.The attackers then fired a barrage of around a dozen shots, hitting him multiple times in the heart.Adhikari, who is also the leader of the opposition in the state assembly, said the killing was cold-blooded murder.The incident has added to tensions around political violence in West Bengal.The shooting matters because it involved a senior opposition... [Continue Reading]