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The blazing sun has set but the heat lingers in the summer evening. In the Muslim-majority Dugni village of Dhuri in Sangrur district, Parveen Begum, the wife of the sarpanch, is busy arranging flower petals and garlands. The flag of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) flutters outside the house.
Setting an ambitious target in the Lok Sabha elections of bagging 13 seats out of 13 in Punjab, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann had called the polls a “reality check” for his two-year-old government.
THE CONGRESS looks set for a big win in Punjab, leading in seven out of 13 Lok Sabha seats. The ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), an ally of the Congress at the national level as part of INDIA, is ahead in three seats.
AT RALLIES held by Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal this election, one prominent poster is omnipresent. It displays a photo of the damaged Akal Takht at Golden Temple after Operation Blue Star, with Badal appealing to voters to keep in mind what “the Congress did in 1984” when they cast their ballot on June 1.
“I had voted for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in 2022, this time I will vote for the Congress chaahe jitte chaahe haare (whether it wins or loses),” says Baljinder Kumar of Rakra Dhahan village in the Anandpur Sahib Lok Sabha constituency as his wife Kulwinder Kaur nods.
The scene in Satoj is like any other. The road to the village awaits repair, a self-help group’s building is under construction, the local pond is as dry as a bone, and the tree guards around the pond do not have trees. Only as a posse of police personnel guarding a house come into sight does one realise it is not a village but the home of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.
Former Punjab minister Harminder Singh Jassi quit the Congress and joined the Bharatiya Janata party on Thursday, just ahead of the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha elections 2024. His decision to join the BJP came days before Punjab goes to the polls in Phase 7.
Addressing a rally in Khetla village in the Sangrur Lok Sabha constituency on May 18, the Congress’s candidate Sukhpal Singh Khaira had called for bringing a law in Punjab along the lines of neighbouring Himachal Pradesh, which would bar a migrant, he said, from buying land or becoming voters or getting government jobs if that person does not fulfil certain state-stipulated conditions.