India, April 27 -- The Congress' West Bengal unit chief, Subhankar Sarkar, on Sunday described the killing of a party worker in Asansol, where polling was held on April 23, as "political murder" even as the police said it was a fallout of an altercation over car parking.

In Delhi, the Congress said the victim, Debdeep Chatterjee, was closely associated with Asansol Uttar Assembly seat's party candidate Prasenjit Puitandi and termed the killing as post-poll violence. Senior party leader Rahul Gandhi strongly condemned the killing, and said his party will not bow before this politics that stains India's non-violent tradition.

Puitandi claimed that Chatterjee was "murdered by TMC goons sheltered by local councillor Animesh Das", a charge t...