Poll violence was also reported from Barak Valley

districts where several people were injured in clashes among different party supporters in Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi. Police resorted to blank firing at a polling centre in Lala Amarbati Lower Primary School when ballot papers were snatched away, police sources said. Clashes also took place at Katigora, Borkhola, Chappa and West Silchar of Cachar district as well as Nilambazar, Ratabari, Patharkandi and West Karimganj of Karimganj district, the sources said. Ballot papers were snatched away and some ballot boxes thrown into ponds by miscreants in both the districts leading to clashes, they said. Attempts at poll rigging were also made at various polling centres, they added. In Nagaon district two persons were injured in rival party skirmishes at Mubarak Basti Lower Primary School.