Punjab Municipal Election Results 2021: Congress party sweeps local body polls
India
Updated: Wednesday, February 17, 2021, 23:44 [IST]
Chandigarh, Feb 17: The Congress party has bagged massive wins in the Punjab local body elections. The party bagged all the municipal corporations Moga, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala, Pathankot, Abohar, Batala and Bathinda. The Congress win in Bathinda is the most unusual as it has been a bastion of the Akalis for a very long time.
Overall, 71.39 per cent turnout was recorded in the polls for the civic bodies for which Congress, AAP, BJP and Akali Dal are taking on each other.
However, the result of the SAS Nagar municipal corporation is likely to be announced later.
The fate of 9,222 candidates will be known on February 17, as counting of votes is taken up in Punjab Municipal Corporation Election where traditional rivals BJP, Congress and the main opposition in the state, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have contested polls.
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1 People wait in line to vote in the Punjab civic body polls in Jalandhar on Sunday. Tribune Photo: Malkiat Singh
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh/Muktsar, February 14
Polling was held for over hundred civic bodies in Punjab on Sunday amid stray incidents of skirmishes at some places.
According to officials, seven people were injured in Rupnagar after workers of the ruling Congress and the Shiromani Akali Dal clashed following a heated argument in Ward No.1 there.
Skirmishes and scuffles between activists of the Congress and the Opposition parties were also reported from Batala, Rajpura, Tarn Taran, Bathinda, Gurdaspur, Samana, Rupnagar, Nabha, Nangal, Mohali and Ferozepur.
Over 70 pc polling in Punjab civic body polls; skirmishes at some places
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Last Updated: Feb 14, 2021, 11:14 PM IST
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A total of 9,222 candidates are in the fray for the elections to 2,302 wards of eight municipal corporations of Abohar, Bathinda Batala, Kapurthala, Mohali, Hoshiarpur, Pathankot and Moga, 109 municipal councils and nagar panchayats.
The counting of votes will take place on February 17.
Chandigarh: Over 70 per cent voting was recorded in the elections to over hundred civic bodies in Punjab on Sunday amid stray incidents of skirmishes at some places. The Opposition parties accused the Congress of indulging in violence and misusing government machinery, a charge denied by the ruling party.