A labourer died at Dharanipur Tea Gardens labour lines today even as the opposition alleged he died of starvation.
However, A senior officer of Jalpaiguri district said, there was no starvation death report in the district so far.
Opposition Congress and CPI(M) claimed Sukhnath Kewal (43) died due to hunger and malnutrition after being deprived of ration supply at the rate of Rs 2/Kg for days.
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"There has been no stop of ration supply to the said labour line of the plantation and the death might have occured due to other ailments," the officer said.