Via PTI
CHANDIGARH: Balloting started Thursday morning for the bypoll to the Punjab’s Sangrur Lok Sabha seat, the place the ruling AAP is going through its first take a look at of recognition after its spectacular efficiency within the meeting elections.
Amid tight safety, the polling started at 8 am and can proceed until 6 pm, officers stated, including the counting of votes can be taken up on June 26. There are 15,69,240 eligible citizens — 8,30,056 males, 7,39,140 girls and 44 from transgender neighborhood — within the Sangrur parliamentary constituency. A complete of 16 applicants, together with 3 girls, are within the fray.
The bypolls come at a time when the Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration (AAP) is going through Opposition warmth over the regulation and order factor and the killing of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala.
Applicants fielded by way of the Congress, the BJP and the SAD are hoping to motive an election disenchanted whilst the AAP is taking a look to copy its feat of the 2022 meeting polls through which it gained all 9 meeting segments beneath the Sangrur Lok Sabha constituency.
Leader Minister Bhagwant Mann campaigned broadly and likewise took out a roadshow with AAP nationwide convener Arvind Kejriwal on Monday urging citizens to elect birthday celebration candidate Gurmail Singh, birthday celebration’s Sangrur district in-charge.
Mann expressed self assurance that “the innovative other people of Sangrur will as soon as once more vote for a commonplace guy and the AAP’s Gurmail Singh will win the bypoll with a thumping majority”.
The Congress, the BJP and the SAD had hit out on the AAP dispensation all through the campaigning over the “deteriorating” regulation and order scenario within the state and likewise raised the killing of Punjabi singer Moosewala. With the exception of regulation and order, the opposition events have slammed the AAP govt over “unfulfilled guarantees”.
The principle opposition Congress has fielded former Dhuri MLA Dalvir Singh Goldy within the bypoll whilst the Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration (BJP) has made former Barnala MLA Kewal Dhillon its candidate, who joined the saffron birthday celebration on June 4.
Kamaldeep Kaur, the sister of Balwant Singh Rajoana, a convict in former Punjab leader minister Beant Singh’s assassination case, has been fielded by way of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD). Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) leader Simranjit Singh Mann may be within the fray.
The Sangrur Lok Sabha seat fell vacant after Bhagwant Mann resigned as MP after successful Dhuri seat within the February 20 Meeting polls. The CM had gained the Sangrur seat in 2014 and 2019 parliamentary elections.
Of the rest 12 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab, the Congress has 8 seats, whilst two each and every are of the BJP and SAD.