In Bihar, brisk polling is on in the six constituencies where voting is taking place in the state today. Nearly 14 percent polling was reported in the first two hours of polling.

The pollling in the state began under the shadow of violence as Maoists killed two CRPF jawans and injured seven others when they were on their way to polling stations of Jamui constituency in Munger district. The injured have been rushed to Bhagalpur hospital.

Deputy Superintendent of Police, Khargpur, Ranjan Kumar said the security personnel belonging to 131 CRPF
battalion were travelling in two jeeps to Tarapur in the Maoist-affected district for poll duty in the early hours when the attack took place.

In another incident, Gaya Police seized six can bombs Banke Bazar area under Imamganj Assembly segment, which is part of Aurangabad Lok Sabha seat, where too polls are underway. The bombs were defused.

The Maoists first detonated an improvised explosive device and then ambushed the CRPF personnel.

Maoists had earlier given a call for a poll boycott.Lok Janashakti Party President Ram Vilas Paswan's son Chirag Paswan is in the fray from the Jamui parliamentary constituency against Bihar Assembly Speaker Uday Narayan Choudhary of JD (U) and Sudhanshu Shekhar Bhaskar of RJD.