Key Points
The toll in election-related violence in West Bengal reached 20 on Sunday morning after a Trinamool Congress worker was stabbed to death in Malda..
According to sources, the victim identified as Matiur Rahman, an active TMC worker, had come to cast his vote at a polling station when some men surrounded him and stabbed him to death..
Among those killed include 62-year-old Ajahar Lashkar, an active TMC worker, who was injured in a clash in Basanti and succumbed to his injuries at SSKM hospital late last night..
The incidents of widespread violence have sparked a heated war of words between the ruling TMC and the Bharatiya Janata Party, with the latter demanding a re-poll at several booths...
With 30 dead since polls were announced earlier last month, this year's bloodied election also closely followed the 2018 panchayat poll violence pattern when a similar number of people were left dead...
