Voters rejected Oppn again: CM

Chandigarh: Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Saturday hailed the Congress victory in the zila parishad and block samiti elections as yet another endorsement of his government’s policies and programmes, and a rejection of the Opposition’s campaign against the ruling dispensation. In a statement here, Capt Amarinder said it was the fourth consecutive humiliating defeat for the SAD-BJP alliance, after back-to-back victories for the Congress in the Assembly elections, urban local body polls and the Gurdaspur and Shahkot byelections. The CM trashed the Akali allegations of booth-capturing by the Congress, saying that it was the SAD which had stooped to all kinds of hooliganism to try and derail the poll process, particularly in Muktsar. TNS