Bolangir, April 14 -- A few days ahead of the second phase elections on April 18, pre-poll violence erupted in Bolangir with a BJD worker sustaining critical injuries after being allegedly attacked by some Congress activists.

As per reports, some Congress workers allegedly barged into the ruling BJD's office at Chandanbhati village under Sadar Police Station in the district late last night and attacked the BJD worker Prafulla Meher.

Meher, who reporedly sustained grevious injuries in the attack, has been admitted to the Bolangir District Headquarters Hospital (DHH).

"I was sitting inside the BJD office when a group of 20 to 25 Congress workers barged into the office and tharshed me," alleged Meher.

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