Campaigning ends, lull prevails

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, December 16

The excessive use of frills and buntings by candidates contesting the Municipal Corporation elections has become an irritant to the commuters. These buntings can be seen hanging over roads and streets.

Although the campaigning for the elections had concluded yesterday evening, these posters with pictures and election symbols of the contesting candidates are here to stay unless they are washed away by rain.

Jagmeet Singh, a resident of Chehharta bazaar, said, “Contesting candidates compete with each other in order to instal more of such publicity material in their constituencies. In the markets, places, it seems like a political festival is going on. The plastic frills and buntings are hard to get rid of and cause inconvenience for long.”

Even as these posters and hoardings will keep reminding the residents of the election campaign for a few more days, they feel relieved that the process is over.

“During campaigning, the candidates totallyignore residents’ convenience and would knock at your door at any time. The noise of loudspeakers was unbearable for us,” said an elderly man, Dalip Singh.

The residents said the political parties should devise new ways to convey their policies to the voters instead of the ‘loud’ publicity campaigns.