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Voters await their turn at the Arya School polling centre in Ludhiana East Assembly
segment on Monday. — Photo by Inderjeet Verma |
Bitter experience for
Thrike, Rajguru Nagar voters
Ludhiana, May 10
Around 1,200 voters of Rajguru Nagar and Thrike village, who had gone to various polling booths to cast their ballot in the morning, were in for a rude shock when they found their names missing from the voters’ list. Interestingly, these voters possessed voters’ cards of the areas that fell under the polling booths.
While this happened in many polling booths both in the city and villages, maximum number of voters who had to return without exercising their franchise were from this area alone.
 Minister, too, returns
disappointed
Men decide, women vote
Ludhiana, May 10
While women voters exercised their franchise, the decision on whom to cast the vote for was in most cases taken by male members of their families, especially in the rural areas.
Liquor speaks for parties in villages
Ludhiana, May 10
Liquor flowed freely and poppy husk was distributed to woo voters in the countryside in this district today. Though the District Magistrate, Mr Anurag Verma, had ordered the closure of liquor shops in view of the Lok Sabha elections, liquor was being sold clandestinely.
IT’S PARTY TIME: Liquor being consumed at a village in Ludhiana on Monday.
— Photo Pradeep Tewari |
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Polling station sans stalls of parties
Mandi Ahmedgarh, May 10
Polling in Jalwana village falling in the Sangrur parliamentary
constituency was marked by the absence of stalls of political parties near the polling station.
No banners or posters of any candidate were seen either near the polling station or anywhere else in the village.
Indifference, mood of the day
Ludhiana, May 10
Indifference was the prevailing mood today in the Ludhiana parliamentary constituency. The total voter turnout is estimated to be about 50 per cent.
The lack of interest had never been so pronounced in the past, as it was this time.
| 78-year-old Amar Kaur turns up to cast her vote at Buddhewal village in Ludhiana on
Monday. — Tribune photo by Pradeep Tewari |
Ms Joginder Kaur, wife of the late Gurcharan Singh Tohra, being escorted by her nephew, Mr Rajinder Singh, to the polling station at Tohra village, Amloh, on Monday.
— Photo by Bhushan Sood |
| Women voters queue up for their turn at Dhapei village in Ludhiana on Monday.
— Tribune photo by Pradeep Tewari |
Security personnel keep vigil at a polling station in Chhawni Mohalla in Ludhiana on
Monday. — Photo by Sayeed Ahmed |
| Disappointed voters show their voters’ cards after they could not find their names in the voter list at Thrike village in Ludhiana on Monday. |
The SAD-BJP alliance candidate, Mr Sharanjit Singh Dhillon, argues with a Congress worker in the Field Ganj area following reports of high-handedness by ruling party
members during polling on Monday. — Photos by Sayeed Ahmed |
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