Day after, candidates choose to do post-poll analysis than relax

Minna Zutshi
Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, May 20

A day after the Lok Sabha polls, the four prominent candidates for the Ludhiana Lok Sabha constituency remained busy with post-poll analyses and meetings with party workers and supporters. The day remained hectic for them.

For Aam Aadmi Party candidate Tejpal Singh Gill, the morning started as usual on a social note at his native village of Gurusar Sadhar. He held a meeting over breakfast at his place with the party volunteers. His next stop was at the Dakha Assembly segment where he visited the house of a party volunteer. His schedule for the later part of the day included a visit to the Ludhiana AAP office. “Discussions with the party workers and supporters are an insightful experience,” he told The Tribune.

The PDA candidate and Lok Insaaf Party leader Simarjit Singh Bains claimed that he stayed awake on the night of May 19 to keep a vigil on the strongrooms. “I went home at 5 am today and took a quick shower followed by an equally quick breakfast. And I am now back to keeping the vigil,” he said. From noon onwards, there are meetings lined up, he added.

Bains said this was no time to relax. “In the evening, sangat will come to my office.”

The SAD candidate, Maheshinder Singh Grewal, too, had a busy day today. The morning started with a visit of party workers and supporters and this made him abandon the idea of starting the day at a relaxed pace.

Attempts to contact Congress candidate Ravneet Singh Bittu proved unsuccessful.