In a complaint to the poll panel, state Congress chief Amarinder Singh claimed that the possibility of holding a free and fair election in the state is becoming "more remote" by the day in view of the government's failure to abide by the commission's directives.
"Despite your explicit instructions to check the police-criminal nexus and to put an immediate stop to the misuse of official machinery to promote vested political interests, the Badal government continues to indulge in anti-people activities, negating all possibilities of holding a fair and free election in the state," the complaint said.
Even as it welcomed the Election Commission's initiatives to ensure free and fair polls in the state, Congress cited several recent instances and underlined the need for strong measures to bring the situation under control.
In its complaint, Congress referred to the arrest of a BJP leader from Mansa in an illicit liquor case, and the murder of an ex-serviceman in Moga following an argument over illicit liquor sale.
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"The situation, as is evident, is progressively deteriorating and crying for stiff and stern action by the Election Commission to ensure that polls in the state can be held with some decorum of fairness," it said.
Punjab assembly polls are due early next year.
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