Wealth seems to be evenly distributed among all the political majors in Punjab as the wealthiest candidate is from Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and there are three each from Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and Congress among the 10 richest candidates in the fray for February 20 assembly polls in the state.
The Congress, AAP, SAD-BSP and the BJP-led alliance have, in all, fielded only 37 female candidates, marking only a modest increase from the 2017 assembly election's tally of 29.
On the statement given by one Sudhir Sharma, the Muktsar Sadar police have booked former Muktsar Municipal Council chief Harpal Singh Bedi and his son, one Harmanjit Singh and his son, Charanjit Singh Sakkanwali, Balwinder Singh and Nimma Rupana under Sections 307 (attempt to murder), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 364 (kidnapping or abducting in order to murder), 511 (commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149 (member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object) of the IPC and 25 (carrying prohibited arms), 27 (illegal use of arms), 54 (possession of prohibited weapon) and 59 (bring/taking out of arms) of the Arms Act.
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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.