India, Oct. 7 -- A trader was shot dead by unidentified assailants while working out at a gym in Didwana-Kuchaman district of Rajasthan early Tuesday morning.

The incident took place around 5.40am at a gym located on Station Road in Kuchaman, where Ramesh Rulania, a motorcycle agency owner and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker, was exercising on the second floor.

According to the police, three masked men entered the gym and opened fire at Rulania before fleeing on two vehicles they had parked nearby. Police reached the spot soon after the shooting and rushed the victim to the district hospital, where doctors declared him dead.

The entire attack was captured on CCTV cameras installed inside the gym. Following the incident, state minis...