Khadoor Sahib votes today

Our Correspondent

Tarn Taran, February 12

Polling parties accompanied by police personnel have been dispatched to Khadoor Sahib where voting will be held on Saturday between 8 am to 5 pm.

Balwinder Singh Dhaliwal, District Election Officer-cum DC told the media here today that there were 210 polling stations in the constituency. There are seven candidates in the fray.

As many as 31 polling stations have been declared hypersensitive while 62 as sensitive and two were critical, he added.

As many as 2,100 security men have been deployed at the polling stations which include 1,500 policemen and six companies of para military forces. Similarly, 850 employees will be on poll duty. Besides, 150 micro- observers have been appointed at different polling stations, he added.

The DC said that the constituency has been divided in two zones and each would be supervised by a SDM and SP- ranked officer. Tight security arrangements have been made to thwart any untoward incident.

There are 1,87,184 voters and it was for the first time that five cross genders have been included in the list of voters.

Ravinder Singh Brahampura, son of Akali stalwart, Ranjit Singh Brahampura is contesting on SAD ticket. The six others are Puran Singh of BSP (Ambedkar) and Independents Sumel Singh Sidhu (AAP rebel), Bhupinder Singh Bittu (Congress rebel), Sukhdev Singh, Harjit Singh and Anantjit Singh Sandhu.