Now, door-to-door canvassing

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, February 22

Campaigning for the MC elections in Ludhiana and bypolls in two wards of Jagraon and Payal Municipal Councils ended this evening. The candidates can carry out door-to-door campaigning.

Section 144 of the CrPC has been imposed in the city that prohibits the assembly of five or more persons in an area. The candidates will have to follow the orders during door-to-door campaigning.

On the last of campaigning, many candidates, along with their supporters, carried out roadshows on cars and bikes in wards.

Meanwhile, residents complained that the officials concerned had failed to ensure full implementation of the model code of conduct as illegal advertisements were still displayed on public properties in the city.

Mann campaigns in 10 wards in city

State President of AAP Bhagwant Mann and Co-Chairman Aman Arora campaigned for the candidates of AAP and the Lok Insaaf Party. They appealed to voters to support the AAP-LIP alliance to make the MC corruption-free. Mann campaigned in Ward No. 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14, 18, 19 and 24.

Politics has become commercialised: Dheera

People should vot5e and exercise their democratic right without fear and reject those using money, muscle power and intoxicants to woo the voters. This was stated by Hardev Arshi, State Secretary of the CPI, while addressing a massive rally organised in support of Randhir Singh Dhira, CPI candidate from Ward No. 78.

“Politics has gone commercialised and people spend crores on elections. How can one expect such people to serve society because their main motive is to make money,” Dhira said, adding that his priorities would be safe drinking water and sewerage for all areas, government dispensaries in each ward, low-cost medicine shops in each ward, affordable quality education for every citizen, affordable residential facilities and cheap houses for the economically weaker sections.