BSP booth management hardly visible in city

Aakanksha N Bhardwaj

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, May 19

BSP’s booth management could not be noticed in the city while workers and supporters of the Congress and SAD were seen outside the polling stations.

Booths of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and BSP were found to be missing at most places. Such was the scenario that it seemed that the fight was between the Congress and SAD. BSP-PDA candidate Balwinder Kumar said more than the city areas, their booths were established in rural areas.

“The booths were established in a way that the idea was to attract voters and make an impact so that after casting votes, they should not leave the station but stand with agents. We had also got special posters printed in which it was shown that the voters must press number 4 button,” he said, adding that they wanted to build up an environment and prompt voters to vote.

“In the areas, which belong to the general section, we had not put up booths,” he said.

One of the workers of the BSP said the plan was to establish booths outside every polling station but it could not succeed.

Besides, booth agents were also roaming around various polling stations and were keeping an eye to check if there was any problem.

One of the BSP workers said every strategy was implemented on the day of the voting. “We did not want to go wrong anywhere, so we made sure that everyone was doing the work in a proper manner,” he said, adding that it was like ‘Saam, daam, dand, bhed’ kind of strategy.

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