Punjab records 66 per cent turnout, voting remains peaceful (Evening Lead)
Saturday - February 4, 2017 5:53 pm ,
Category : INDIA
New Delhi: The single-phase elections in Punjab and Goa ended today, with the former registering 66 percent voters’ turnout and the later 83 percent.
Both states witness high-octane three-way battle between the BJP, Congress and a debutante Aam Aadmi Party.Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, who was among the first to cast his vote in Goa, could make a return to state politics after BJP chief Amit Shah said at a rally that the new government would work under the leadership of Parrikar, should the BJP retain power in the Goa.
Meanwhile, in Punjab, the Badal family voted in patriarch Parkash Singh Badal’s Lambi constituency. The state witnesses intense competition in Lambi – where incumbent Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal faces his predecessor Amarinder Singh – and the Jalalabad seat, where AAP MP Bhagwant Mann seeks to dethrone Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal.
Former BJP MP and newly-inducted Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu is contesting from Amritsar East; whereas, Amarinder Singh is also facing former Army chief General JJ Singh in Patiala.
State Congress chief Amarinder Singh today termed the Assembly polls as a “vote for stability versus communalism and radicalism” and exuded confidence of a clean sweep in the state, including the Malwa region, which poll pundits had been terming as an AAP stronghold.
The chief ministerial candidate of Congress who exercised his franchise at Government College for Women here, promised to usher in the “much-needed new dawn (navan savera)” in the state IANS
Both states witness high-octane three-way battle between the BJP, Congress and a debutante Aam Aadmi Party.Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, who was among the first to cast his vote in Goa, could make a return to state politics after BJP chief Amit Shah said at a rally that the new government would work under the leadership of Parrikar, should the BJP retain power in the Goa.
Meanwhile, in Punjab, the Badal family voted in patriarch Parkash Singh Badal’s Lambi constituency. The state witnesses intense competition in Lambi – where incumbent Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal faces his predecessor Amarinder Singh – and the Jalalabad seat, where AAP MP Bhagwant Mann seeks to dethrone Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal.
Former BJP MP and newly-inducted Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu is contesting from Amritsar East; whereas, Amarinder Singh is also facing former Army chief General JJ Singh in Patiala.
State Congress chief Amarinder Singh today termed the Assembly polls as a “vote for stability versus communalism and radicalism” and exuded confidence of a clean sweep in the state, including the Malwa region, which poll pundits had been terming as an AAP stronghold.
The chief ministerial candidate of Congress who exercised his franchise at Government College for Women here, promised to usher in the “much-needed new dawn (navan savera)” in the state IANS
