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Doaba registers heavy voter turnout
Peaceful polling in Anandpur Sahib
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65 pc turnout in Kapurthala
MLA Jagbir Brar ‘slaps’ Congress worker
Amritsar (South) segment records minimum voting
Cong, BJP workers enter into scuffle
M.S. Gill casts vote in Tarn Taran
Death of polling officer
Power belongs to women here
14 kg of heroin seized from border
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Doaba registers heavy voter turnout
Jalandhar, May 13 The elections in Jalandhar witnessed 68 per cent polling with highest poll percentage of 71.11 in the Shahkot assembly constituency. The results would be declared on May 16. A majority of the voters made it to the polling booths quite early. However, by the evening the voter turnout was fairly well. More enthusiastic were the first-time voters who expressed confidence in the Indian democracy and maintained that the youth should be made part of the political system. Among the voters was Congress candidate Mohinder Singh Kaypee, who came along with his wife Suman, daughters Rupali, Karishma and son Richy, to exercise his franchise. SAD candidate Hans Raj Hans also cast his vote along with his wife Resham and sons Navraj and
Yugraj. BSP candidate Surjeet Singh reached the polling booth with his family to cast vote. Kaypee said he would lead by a good margin, Hans was hopeful of a sweeping victory.
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Peaceful polling in Anandpur Sahib
Nawanshahr, May 13 There were eight similar cases in Nawanshahr, six in Garhshankar, five in Banga and two in
Balachaur. Cases registered: The Nawanshahr police booked 12 youths of Chandigarh under section 188,
IPC, for violating the orders of the District Magistrate and straying in the Balachaur assembly segment to support a candidate. SSP Rakesh
Aggarwal, however, did not clarify as to which party they were working for. The police booked the owner of a liquor vend in Pojewal town for opening the shop last night despite it being a dry day. The police apprehended a tippler and seized 23 bottles of liquor from him last evening. The
SSP, however, said no political party was involved in either of the incidents. Anomalies in voters’ list: Several cases of anomalies in the voters’ list were found in the constituency. At Agampur village, near Anandpur Sahib, Rekha Devi found that the list had her name mentioned at 346th position as Bagga Ram, while her picture was correctly pasted. She, however, showed her voter I-card and was allowed to cast the vote. Paramjit Kaur came with her voter I-card, but did not find her name in the list and hence could not exercise her right. At Kot Patti village, near
Banga, Kawaljit Kaur (ID SXD 0184200) found that the voters’ list had the picture of a man pasted there. Similarly, the list also had a wrong picture for Satish Kumar (ID SXD 0184192. Both the voters showed other I-cards for casting their votes. Baljeet Singh showed that a voter I-card
(SXD 0183772) that he got a few days back put his gender as female.
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65 pc turnout in Kapurthala
Kapurthala, May 13 While 68 per cent polling was registered in Bholath, the Phagwara assembly constituency witnessed 64 per cent turnout. Both these assembly seats of Kapurthala district now fall in the Hoshiarpur parliamentary constituency. Similarly, 62 per cent votes were polled in Sultanpur Lodhi and 65
per cent in the Kapurthala assembly constituency. These assembly seats now fall in the Khadoor
Sahib parliamentary constituency. It was for the first time that electors of Kapurthala district cast their votes for the contestants from Hoshiarpur and Khadoor Sahib Lok Sabha seats after delimitation. 63 pc polling in Hoshiarpur Hoshiarpur: The 15th Lok Sabha elections ended with incidents of violence and fake voting at different polling stations in the Hoshiarpur parliamentary constituency today. The constituency witnessed 62.98 per cent polling. —
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MLA Jagbir Brar ‘slaps’ Congress worker
Jalandhar, May 13 When contacted, Deputy Commissioner-cum-Returning Officer Ajeet Singh Pannu said he had not received any complaint in this regard. “I am not aware if any such incident has taken place,” he maintained. Kaypee said the incident took place at around noon when a BJP party worker, Bunti, had a scuffle with Congress worker Bhupinder Bhandari at polling booth No 16, situated in Rabindra Day Boarding School. Congress workers maintained that Bhandari was later admitted to the Civil Hospital. SAD workers on their part maintained that Bunti, too, received injuries during the scuffle. The incident brought to halt the polling process for a while leading to inconvenience to voters.
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Amritsar (South) segment records minimum voting
Amritsar, May 13 As the polling started people in the border towns of Attari and Rajasansi were seen making a beeline to the polling booths and 15 per cent and 20 per cent of polling, respectively, in the two towns was recorded within the first two hour. However, the lowest percentage of nine was registered in the first two hours in the Majitha assembly constituency. The other assembly segments which recorded heavy turnout include Rajasansi with 65 per cent , Majitha 66, Amritsar (North) 65, Amritsar (West) 66, Amritsar (East) 64, Amritsar (Central) 62 and Ajnala 60. Sidelights
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Cong, BJP workers enter into scuffle
Amritsar, May 13 According to reports, supporters of former Congress MLA and
ex-chairman of the Amritsar Improvement Trust Jugal Kishore Sharma were involved in heated exchange with BJP workers near Ram Ashram School just before the conclusion
of the polling. Sharma said as their party polling agent in the polling station in the school did not allow the BJP workers to cast bogus votes, they beat him up and tried to snatch his gold chain. He said after the polls were over the BJP workers gheraoed the agent outside the polling station and thrashed
him again. He said as soon as he got the information, he along with his party workers reached the
site and informed the police. He said the DSP of the area also arrived at the site. He said the Congress workers raised slogans and burnt the effigy of BJP candidate Navjot Singh Sidhu as the police failed to take any action against the accused. He said they also reported the matter to
the SSP who asked them to submit their complaint to Vijay Nagar police station. However, BJP MLA Anil Joshi refuted that allegations saying about 40-50 armed Congress workers arrived at the scene and beat up the BJP workers. |
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M.S. Gill casts vote in Tarn Taran
Tarn Taran, May 13 Gill, who is also the Chairman of the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS), was accompanied by AICC member and Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee vice-president M.M. Singh Cheema. Gill cast his vote at polling station 106. He said the youth of the country formed the major share of the voters and their participation was must for strengthening democracy. He said he decided to vote at his native place to give a message to the young generation to exercise their right to vote. — TNS |
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Death of polling officer
Hoshiarpur, May 13 Though the administrative officers of different districts claim to have deployed well-equipped mobile medical vans with every Assistant Returning Officer, yet to provide medical assistance to such a large number of people involved in the poll process was not feasible. The mobile medical van that reached more than an hour late at the Bhet Pattan polling station has further raised doubts on the efficiency of the authorities concerned. Resentment prevailed among the polling staff as the authorities had made no arrangements for preliminary healthcare in any of the polling station in the Hoshiarpur and Gurdaspur constituencies. A survey by The Tribune team at various polling stations revealed that almost every polling booth was lacking basic facilities, including potable water and first aid kits. Even many of the polling booths were functioning from dingy rooms without proper air, light and infrastructure. As the news of Ashok Kumar’s death spread, officers in the district administrations at Gurdaspur and Hoshiarpur swung into action and activated their mobile medical teams. The medical teams were pressed into service in their respective areas but the polling was almost half finished by then. When contacted, Neel Kanth, Deputy Commissioner-cum-District Returning Officer, Gurdaspur, claimed that Ashok Kumar died of heart attack. The assistant presiding officer was given the responsibility of the polling officer soon after the death of Ashok Kumar. He claimed that the mobile medial team reached the spot but before that polling officer had already breathed his last. He claimed that the Election Commission would released a grant of Rs 5 lakh to the aggrieved family of Ashok Kumar. Meanwhile, N.K. Wadhawan, District Returning Officer, Hoshiarpur, said six mobile medical teams were deployed with Assistant Returning Officers. The officers, however, were reluctant to comment when asked about the provision of first aid kits at the polling stations.
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Power belongs to women here
Bholath (Kapurthala), May 13 Bholath is probably the only constituency in Punjab which has nearly 6 per cent more women voters than male electors. According to the data available with The Tribune, Bholath has 3,634 more women voters than men. Out of the 1,10,876 voters, the women voters are 57,255, whereas males are 53,621. The three other assembly constituencies of the Kapurthala district, including Phagwara (males 78,122, females 72,627) falling in the Hoshiarpur parliamentary seat and Sultanpur Lodhi (males 60,961, females 58,648) and Kapurthala (males 58,743, females 57,512) falling in the Khadoor Sahib parliamentary seat have more male voters as compared to females. So the entire Kapurthala district has 5,405 more male voters (2,51,447) than the female voters (2,46,042). Former Bholath MLA and former SGPC president Bibi Jagir Kaur gives two reasons for more women voters in her constituency. First, a large number of men have migrated to different foreign countries from this region and their names have been deleted from electoral rolls from time to time. Secondly, the public here does not indulge in female foeticide, the SAD leader claims. On the other hand, Bholath MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira says migration of men is the only reason for more women voters here. Female foeticide is prevalent here like the other parts of the state, he says. Saying that the trend of going to foreign countries for greener pastures is more prevalent as compared to other parts of Punjab, especially the Doaba region, Khaira says even the global recession had not put a stop to the migration of men abroad. The Congress MLA further says this phenomenon here could easily be substantiated with the fact that the number of voters in Bholath decreased nearly 10,000 in five years as there were 1,09,000 voters in 2007 as compared to 1,19,000 voters in the 2002 assembly elections. |
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14 kg of heroin seized from border
Amritsar, May 13 The SNC has registered a case. According to information, a search was conducted by the SNC and BSF authorities after a specific information at the T-band and MP Forward areas at the Indo-Pak border, near zero line, from where they found four and six packets of the contraband, respectively. Sources in the SNC said the contraband was concealed by Pakistan-based smugglers at the border, which was to be taken out by India-based smugglers living in nearby villages. —
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(SC) parliamentary seat, voters, especially women and elderly, turned up in large numbers to exercise their franchise in the fifth and last phase of polling for the 2009 general election.
The Congress candidate for the local Lok Sabha seat, Mohinder Singh Kaypee, said he had lodged a complaint with the Union Election Commission against Jalandhar Cantonment MLA Jagbir Singh Brar for allegedly slapping a Congress worker at a polling booth. Brar denied the allegations levelled against him as he claimed that he was not involved in the incident.
The poll process turned out
to be largely peaceful with stray incidents of violence at a few places in the constituency. 
Vote refusal: There were reports of 22 people coming to the booths and getting their names entered in 17 (A) register and refusing to vote under section 49 (O). Charanjit Singh of Bheen village in Nawanshahr refused his vote.
As much as 65 per cent polling has been registered in four assembly
constituencies of Kapurthala district. As no untoward incident was reported from anywhere in Kapurthala, DC-cum-District Election
Officer Raj Kamal Chaudhury said.