Jalpaiguri (WB): Two tea garden labourers allegedly died due to starvation in Alipurduar and Jalpaiguri districts, even as the administration maintained that the deaths were caused by regular ailments.

RSP-affiliated UTUC leader Nirmal Das said a woman tea labourer, Budhni Oraon (37), died of starvation on Thursday after not getting wages for nine months in a tea garden at Birpara area (of Alipurduar district) which had been facing stalemate for several months.