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Congress Sweeps Punjab Urban Body Polls, BJP Routed Amid Farmers’ Protest


Punjab Native Physique Ballot Outcomes: Only one,003 BJP candidates contested this time.

Chandigarh:

The Congress celebration at this time made a clear sweep of Punjab’s seven municipal firms within the state native physique polls. The celebration bagged all of the our bodies for which the outcomes had been declared at this time: Moga, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala, Abohar, Pathankot, Batala, and Bathinda – the final one additionally being essentially the most gorgeous results of the day because it was after 53 years that town was returning to the Congress fold. Mohali’s outcomes will likely be declared solely tomorrow.

The Bathinda Lok Sabha constituency is represented by Harsimrat Badal of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), which solely just lately parted methods with long-time ally BJP following the unrest kicked up among the many state’s farmers by the Centre’s three new farm legal guidelines.

Congress MLA and state finance minister, Manpreet Singh Badal, represents the Bathinda city meeting seat. He’s additionally a cousin of SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal, making the polls a status battle this time.

The rising situation could also be perceived as an enormous setback for the BJP because it was seen as an city voter base celebration and had been in alliance with the SAD till outraged farmers of the states modified the dynamics over the previous few months.

As much as 109 municipal councils and nagar panchayats and 7 municipal firms went to the polls on February 14, witnessing 71.39 per cent turnout amid a raging protest spearheaded by farmers of the state in opposition to three new central legal guidelines. 

Yesterday, re-polling was held in just a few cubicles, the outcomes of which can even be introduced at this time. The ballot panel has additionally ordered re-polling at this time in sales space numbers 32 and 33 of the Mohali municipal company between 8 am to 4 pm. Subsequently, counting for that company will likely be held solely tomorrow.

As much as 9,222 candidates are within the fray total. Of those, independents kind the most important chunk with 2,832; the Congress has the most important variety of contestants among the many official events at 2,037 – its Muktsar candidate has already received unopposed. The BJP, which is going through hearth on the farm legal guidelines entrance, has fielded just one,003. The celebration is contesting with out its Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) alliance this time. The SAD itself has 1,569 candidates.

Of the two,215 wards within the reckoning, as much as 1,480 are of common class, whereas 610 are within the Scheduled Caste and 125 in Backward Caste segments.  

The Punjab State Election Fee yesterday ordered deputy commissioners to nominate micro-observers for vote counting of delicate and hypersensitive warrds.

Opposition events have accused the ruling Congress of “capturing cubicles” and “indulging in violence”, in keeping with a PTI report.

The elections had been held amid hundreds of farmers from the state, together with a lot of these from Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, tenting round Delhi since November in protest in opposition to the central legal guidelines. Over 150 protesters have died until now as a result of varied causes, together with harsh climate and by suicide.

The protest burst into violence on January 26 and has, since, gained worldwide consideration.


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