Pollingwas held for eight municipal corporations, and 109 municipal councils and nagarpanchayats in Punjab today amid an array of violence incidents reported betweenthe workers of the ruling Congress, BJP and APP at some places.
Aspokesperson of the Punjab State Election Commission said that the highestturnout was recorded in Mansa district, while the lowest turnout recorded inSAS Nagar district.
Incidents of Violence reported today
Asper information, seven people received injuries in Rupanagar after workers ofthe Congress and the Shiromani Akali Dal clashed following a heated argument inWard No.1. However, in Moga, SAD leader Praveen Kumar Pinna was assaulted byunidentified men at Arya School pooling both.
Otherviolent incidents and scuffles between activists of the ruling party and theopposition parties were reported from Batala, Rajpura, Tarn Taran, Bathinda,Gurdaspur, Samana, Rupnagar, Nabha, Nangal, Mohali and Ferozepur.
Theleaders of the opposition parties including Aam Aadmi Party and SAD both hadaccused the Congress workers of indulging in booth capturing in Samana,Rajpura, Dhuri, Abohar and Bhikhiwind, however, the allegations have been dulydenied by the ruling party and they said as the BJP and AAP are losing theelections, therefore they were making false claims to malign the Congress imagein the eyes of the common public.
Moreover,Leader of Opposition, Harpal Singh Cheema claimed that an AAP volunteer wasallegedly shot at in Patti by some Congress activists, but the police on dutyat the site, rejected the claims and said nothing such was reported.
Besidesbriefing the media this afternoon in Majitha, the SAD leader Bikram SinghMajithia also accused the Congress and sought resignation of CM CaptainAmarinder Singh for all the violence incidents reported during the poll and formisusing the government machinery in order to win the elections.
Fate of 9,222candidates will be decided on Feb 17
Meanwhile,there are a total 9,222 candidates contesting these elections in Punjab for2,302 wards. 2,832 are contesting as independents, 2,037 are contesting fromCongress and 1,569 candidates belong to SAD. The BJP has fielded 1,003candidates while the AAP and BSP have fielded 1,606 and 160 candidatesrespectively.
TheState Election Commission has also announced February 14 and February 17 as dryday.
Voting percentagedistrict wise
InSAS Nagar the voting turnout recorded 60.08 percent, while Roopnagar's votingfigure has gone up to 73.80 percent.
Thevoting percentage in Fatehgarh Sahib have achieved 75.78 percent mark, Amritsarscored 71.20 percent, Tarn Taran 63.12 percent, Gurdaspur 70 percent, Pathankot75.37 percent, Bathinda 79 percent, Mansa 82.99 percent, Faridkot votingpercentage reached at 71.03 percent, while in Hoshiarpur total 66.68 percentand Jalandhar's poll percentage reached 73.29 percent mark.
64.34percent voters exercised their right of franchise in Kapurthala, besides pollpercentage have reached 69.71 percent in SBS Nagar, Ferozepur have scored 74.01percent voting, Sri Muktsar Sahib district gained 68.65 percent voting tag,Moga 69.50 percent, Fazilka have marked 72.40 percent, Patiala 70.09 percent,Ludhiana managed to get the turnout figure on 70.33. Apart from this, Barnaladistrict attained 71.99 percentage mark, though Sangrur have administered themark of voting at 77.39 percentage.