Decoding Phase 4 of 2019 Lok Sabha elections

The fourth phase of 2019 Lok Sabha polls on Monday witnessed incidents of violence in West Bengal and Odisha that left a Congress worker dead.

In Barabani, BJP candidate from Asansol and Union minister minister Babul Supriyo's vehicle was vandalised allegedly by TMC workers outside a polling station while in Dubrajpur area central security forces personnel reportedly opened fire in the air to disperse irate people who attacked them when they were barred from entering the booths with mobile phones.

The ruling Trinamool Congress and the BJP accused each other of intimidating voters in the state, which has seen violence in all previous three phases despite stepped up central forces deployment.