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Extensive violence but also high turnout marked the fifth phase of polling for 51 constituencies across seven states in the Lok Sabha elections on Monday. The phase saw 62.56 per cent polling, according to the EC. 

Violence was reported from West Bengal with Barrackpore and Bongaon seeing pitched violence between Trinamool party workers and others. Two polling booths in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian were set on fire this morning. A grenade attack was reported in Pulwama where 40 CRPF men were killed in Febr­uary. 14 seats in Uttar Prad­esh, 12 in Rajasthan, seven seats each in West Bengal and Madhya