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58 per cent polling in Khadoor Sahib bypoll

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Press Trust of India Khadoor Sahib(Punjab)
Last Updated : Feb 13 2016 | 8:22 PM IST
Fifty eight per cent polling was today recorded in the bypoll to Khadoor Sahib assembly seat in Tarn Taran district.
Fifty eight per cent polling took place in the bypoll to the Khadoor Sahib assembly seat, official sources said here.
The polling percentage in today's byelection was way below the 80.07 per cent voting which took place in 2012 assembly polls for the same seat.
Main opposition parties Congress and Aam Aadmi Party have stayed out of the contest.
The byelection concluded peacefully as there was no report of untoward incident in the bypoll.
Polling remained slow in the morning but later in the day it picked up with voters reaching polling stations in large numbers.
There are total 1,87,184 voters and this time five cross genders were also included in the voter list.

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Around 2,100 security personnel were deployed in all the polling stations, including 1,500 policemen and six companies of para military forces.
The bypoll was held as the seat fell vacant after Congress MLA Ramanjit Singh Sikki resigned in protest against sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib last year.
There were seven contestants in the fray but among main political parties, only Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has put up his candidate.
Ravinder Singh Brahampura, son of Akali stalwart, Ranjit Singh Brahampura is contesting on SAD ticket. The six others are Puran Singh of BSP (Ambedkar) and Independents - Sumel Singh Sidhu (AAP rebel), Bhupinder Singh Bittu (Congress rebel), Sukhdev Singh, Harjit Singh and Anantjit Singh Sandhu.
Congress pulled out of the contest on the last date of filing the nomination and had said that the issue on which Sikki had resigned was still unresolved. Sikki had even appealed to voters to boycott the bypoll.
SAD President Sukhbir Badal during his campaigning had slammed both Congress and AAP for "running away" from the contest as "both parties are scared of losing".
The counting of votes will take place on February 16 and the result will be declared on the same day.

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First Published: Feb 13 2016 | 8:22 PM IST

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