All set for counting: DC

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, May 21

District Election Officer-cum-Deputy Commissioner Pradeep Kumar Agrawal today inspected preparations at all counting centres here. He was accompanied by the representatives of parties. The counting of votes for the Ludhiana parliamentary constituency would be held on the Punjab Agricultural University campus on Thursday.

The counting of votes for all nine Vidhan Sabha constituencies in the Ludhiana parliamentary segment-7 would be held at PAU whereas the votes polled in five Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Ludhiana district that are part of the Fatehgarh Sahib parliamentary constituency would be held at Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College here.

Media centres would be set up at Sukhdev Bhawan, PAU, and GNE Polytechnic College.

Agrawal said adequate number of counting teams had been deputed for the counting of votes at all nine Vidhan Sabha constituencies that fall under the Ludhiana parliamentary constituency-7. He said micro observers, counting supervisors, assistant counting supervisors, etc, would also be deputed.

Bains expresses dissatisfaction 

Expressing dissatisfaction over the arrangements at strongrooms and counting centres, Lok Insaaf Party chief and candidate for Ludhiana seat Simarjeet Singh Bains midway left a meeting held at Sukhdev Bhawan on Tuesday. While Agrawal was addressing the meeting, Bains expressed dissatisfaction over the arrangements at strongrooms. He alleged Agrawal worked on the instructions of the Congress. However, Agrawal denied the allegations. He said: “We are doing our job in the right way. The allegations are completely false.”

SAD supports DC 

Gurmeet Singh Kular, a representative of the Shiromani Akali Dal, said: “I visited the strongrooms with Agrawal and I am fully satisfied with the working of the returning officer and arrangements at the strongrooms.”