Chandigarh, February 27: A joint SAD-BJP delegation today asked Governor VP Singh Badnore to direct scrapping of the poll process for the Ludhiana Municipal Corporation held yesterday.
The delegation, led by senior SAD leaders Bikram Singh Majithia and Maheshinder Singh Grewal and BJP leaders Dinesh Kumar and Rajinder Bhandari, pointed out how workers of the ruling Congress indulged in unprecedented violence, booth capturing and rigging of the polls.
The delegation said the rigging was allegedly done by the Congress workers, led by party MP Ravneet Singh Bittu and legislator Bharat Bhushan Ashu. These leaders allegedly led mobs, including outsiders and “goondas”, to the polling booths and had a free run because of the large contingent of security personnel accompanying them.
The delegation urged the Governor to direct the Ludhiana administration to register cases against Bittu and Ashu, besides other Congress leaders, including Surinder Dawar and Rakesh Pandey, against whom complaints had been submitted. It was also requested that the Governor direct the administration to withdraw all false cases registered against SAD-BJP workers immediately.
The state Election Commission failed in its duty and did not take action on any of the multiple complaints submitted to it, a press release said.The delegation members included Hira Singh Gabria, Sharanjit Singh Dhillon, Dr Daljit Singh Cheema, Ranjit Singh Cheema, Manpreet Ayali, Charanjit Brar and Vineet Joshi.
Source Tribune India
