India, May 20 -- An auto-rickshaw driver transporting voters to a polling booth in Odisha's Bargarh Lok Sabha constituency was stabbed to death by a man after an altercation between them on Monday, police said.

While polling was underway at a booth in the Government Primary School in Sarsara village of Bargarh Lok Sabha constituency, the auto driver Biswanath Mirdha of Sarsara village had a heated exchange with them during which a person named Manoj Mahananda stabbed him with a khukri, police added.

Mirdha was rushed to a local medical facility where he was declared dead.

The voting in the village was disrupted temporarily due to the incident. The locals blamed the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) for the murder; however, police refuted the claim...