About 1.16 crore voters would seal the fate of 139 candidates, including ten women and 65 independents in the polling for nine Lok Sabha seats.
The polling to nine Lok Sabha seats in Punjab and the lone Chandigarh constituency will be held on Wednesday with the fifth and final phase of countrywide election on May 13.
About 1.16 crore voters would seal the fate of 139 candidates, including ten women and 65 independents in the polling for nine Lok Sabha seats of Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Kahdoor Sahib, Jalandhar (reserve), Fatehgarh Sahib (reserve), Hoshiarpur (reserve), Anandpur Sahib, Ludhiana and Faridkot (reserve).
The ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and its ally BJP, the opposition Congress and the BSP have fielded candidates on all the nine seats.
Prominent among those whose fate will be sealed on Wednesday included Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu (BJP) from Amritsar, filmstar-turned-politician Vinod Khanna (BJP) from his traditional bastion Gurdaspur, Lok Sabha deputy speaker Charanjit Singh Atwal (SAD) from Fatehgarh Sahib, sugar baron Rana Gurjeet Singh (Congress) from Kahdoor Sahib and former Punjab governor Lt gen (retd) BKN Chibber (BSP) from Amritsar.
The fate of sitting MP and union minister Pawan Kumar Bansal (Congress), former MP Satya Pal Jain (BJP) and former union minister Harmohan Dhawan (BSP) and 11 others would be sealed by over five lakh voters for the lone Lok Sabha seat of Chandigarh.
The elections to four seats of Punjab - Bathinda, Sangrur, Patiala and Ferozepur were held on May seven.The counting of votes will take place on May 16.
More than 53,000 state police personnel has been mobilised for the second phase of polling in Punjab besides 165 companies of Para Military Force and state Armed Police.
While Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Khadoor Sahib constituencies have been declared hyper-sensitive, Faridkot and Ludhiana were declared sensitive constituencies by the Election Commission.
Officials said that as many as 1,099 and 2,548 polling stations have been identified as hyper-sensitive and sensitive respectively.
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