Chandigarh: Five-time Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal lashed out at Congress and Aam Aadmi Party during a rally at his home turf Lambi constituency.

He, however, did not speak a single word against Bharatiya Janata Party, SAD’s former alliance partner in Punjab.

Badal, 94, who is the oldest candidate in the fray in the country, said that political opportunists are contesting the elections and they are eager to turn Punjab into an open political mandi.

Claiming that around 62 candidates of Congress and AAP padty were defectors and they had neither commitment nor integrity, therefore, he called people to not elect them.

Badal dared both Congress and AAP to just name one issue which, Akali Dal did not fulfil during its governance in Punjab.

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Chandigarh: With Punjab Assembly Elections 2022 are around the corner, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Punjab Dr S Karuna Raju on Wednesday held a virtual meeting with all the Returning Officers (ROs) of the state to review the checklist for Polling Stations and Dispatch Centre.

During the meeting, Dr S Karuna Raju directed all the officers to ensure that appropriate arrangements be made at each polling station, as per the instructions of the Election Commission of India.

CEO directed officials to ensure all the COVID-19 material including Mask, Gloves, PPE, Soaps, Thermometer, Sanitizer etc are available at every polling station and there should be COVID dustbins placed at booths. He also asked ROs to ensure that web cameras are working in all the polling booths.

He asked ROs to identify 5-10 volunteers for facilitating PwDs and elderly people at the Polling booths. He asked them to install selfie points and Muscat Shera at all the Polling booths.

“Give a warm welcome to Young voters, who are casting their vote for the first time by giving them certificates or flowers. He asked to ensure pick and drop facilitiy to Elderly and PwD voters,” he directed the officers.

Punjab Chief Electoral Officer also instructed to use eco-friendly material such as paper glass, paper plates and eco-friendly plastic flexes etc. during the ensuing Vidhan Sabha Polls as per directions of Election Commission of India and Kerala high court’s decision.

He also ordered to use good quality public address system during disbursal of poll parties and collection of polled EVMs and give utmost hustle free environment to women staff.

Dr S Karuna Raju asked ROs to take Special care of Women staff and provide them drop facilitiy in case they gets free in late evening.

He asked the officials that the names of all the polling stations and booths should be clearly readable and ensure the cleanliness in the toilets besides providing safe drinking water to the electors.

He also asked them to ensure all the EVM carrying vehicles are equipped with Global Positioning System (GPS).

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JALANDHAR: Deputy Commissioner-cum-District Elections Officer Ghanshyam Thori today while participating in a poll preparedness review meeting, said that district administration Jalandhar is all set for the smooth conduct of forthcoming assembly elections as all the necessary arrangements have already been put in place in this regard.

The DC said that on Poll day i.e. February 20, 2022, the polling will be held between 8am to 6 pm across all 1975 polling stations and requisite preparations have been finalized to ensure the conduct of this mammoth exercise smoothly. Giving more details, he said that the GPS monitoring was guaranteed of vehicles tasked with the transportation of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) to polling stations as GPS systems have already been fitted in as many as 746 vehicles.

Speaking on the arrangements made for PWD voters, the DC said that surplus arrangement of wheelchairs have been ensured with procurement of as many as 1335 wheelchairs for all 1163 polling locations. Likewise, Pick and Drop facilities would be provided to those PWD voters who have sought this assistance through PWD mobile app or BLOs, said DC.

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