Punjab civic polls: SAD contesting 45% of whole wards, BJP tad larger at 60% | Chandigarh Information

The SAD had not participated within the bypolls for 4 Meeting seats held in November resulting from occasion chief Sukhbir Singh Badal’s tankhaiya standing. Badal was barred from collaborating in political actions by the Akal Takht Sahib, and the occasion had evaded the polls in help of the occasion president.

Badal and different SAD leaders have accomplished the non secular punishment introduced by Akal Takht Sahib. Nonetheless, he’s but to get the ultimate verdict of Akal Takht Jathedar, so Badal stayed away from campaigning for the municipal polls as effectively.

The 5 municipal companies – Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Amritsar, Patiala, and Phagwara – have a mixed energy of 370 wards, and the BJP might subject candidates in 319 wards (86.2 per cent), whereas the SAD has put up nominees in 213 wards (57.56 per cent).

It must be talked about that the BJP media workplace claimed that they’d candidates for 367 out of 370 wards in 5 municipal companies however solely 319 candidates are within the fray owing to the ‘machinations’ of the ruling occasion.

The 44 municipal councils/ nagar panchayats in semi-urban areas have 598 wards in whole. Of which, BJP candidates are within the fray in 268 wards (44.8 per cent). The SAD, which used to have an higher hand within the semi-urban areas prior to now, might subject solely 225 candidates (37.62 per cent).

Among the many 44 municipal councils going to polls, Sangrur has 29 wards whereas Rampura Phul in Bathinda district has 21. The remaining municipal councils/ nagar panchayats have 15 or lower than 15 wards.

Municipal Companies

Within the 95-member robust Ludhiana Municipal Company, BJP candidates are contesting 90 wards, whereas SAD candidates are within the reckoning in 78 wards. In Amritsar, the BJP is contesting 84 of 85 wards and the SAD 69 wards. In Jalandhar, BJP candidates are contesting 83 of 85 wards, whereas the SAD is within the fray in solely 31 wards. In Patiala, the BJP has fielded 25 candidates in 60 wards, in comparison with the SAD’s 26. In Phagwara, there are 50 wards and the BJP and the SAD are contesting 37 and 9 wards, respectively.

BJP spokesperson Pritpal Singh Baliawal had earlier alleged that the ruling Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) didn’t permit a number of of their candidates to file nomination papers, whereas nomination papers had additionally been ‘unfairly’ rejected on many events.

Parambans Bunty Rumana, senior SAD chief, mentioned, “Papers of our candidates had been rejected in Amritsar, Patiala, Ludhiana, and plenty of different locations. On the identical time, as a result of high-handedness of the ruling occasion within the state, a lot of our candidates couldn’t even file nomination papers. Our candidates are giving their greatest within the seats they’re contesting.”

‘Invisible SAD-BJP alliance’

Though there is no such thing as a official alliance between the BJP and the SAD, the latter fielded candidates in solely 9 wards in Phagwara, just like what they used to do after they had been in an alliance with the BJP. In seven of 9 wards that the SAD is contesting, the BJP has not fielded any candidate.

Equally, in Sangrur, the BJP is contesting 22 of 29 wards whereas the SAD is contesting 14. The BJP has not fielded any candidate in 5 of the 14 wards that the SAD is contesting. Sources revealed that this ‘undeclared seat adjustment’ was carried out by native leaders of the 2 events.