A local Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader was murdered by unidentified assailants in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, police said on Saturday.

Rajbehari Sardar (65), TMC’s booth chief in Patisara gram panchayat, was stabbed and severely beaten up by around five-six people at a function in Nanoor

area around 10 pm on Friday, a police officer said.

Sardar was taken to Mangalkot Hospital in neighbouring Purba Bardhaman district where he was declared dead by doctors, he said.

The deceased’s son alleged that Sardar was killed by members of a rival faction of the party.

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