BJP leader Jaiveer Shergill appealed to voters to exercise their right to vote, as the last and final phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections began on Saturday, June 1.street. He asked voters to exercise their right to vote for the future of the country and strengthen democracy.
The BJP leader told ANI: “Today is the last stage of the elections. I appeal to all the voters of the seventh phase to come in large numbers and vote, especially the people of Punjab should come out and vote to make a record,” after casting his vote at a polling station in Jalandhar.
He expressed gratitude to the electoral commission for conducting “free and fair” elections. “We must vote for the future of the country and to strengthen democracy,” he added.
All 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab went to polls on Saturday.
Congress’s Charanjit Singh Channi, BJP’s Shushil Kumar Rinku and AAP’s Pawan Kumar Tinu are the leading candidates in Jalandhar Lok Sabha constituency for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Candidates from the scheduled casts have their seats reserved in Jalandhar constituency.
Congress’s Santokh Singh Chaudhary won the constituency with a victory margin of 19,491 votes, securing 3,85,712 votes, in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections by defeating SAD’s Charanjit Singh Atwal, who secured 3,66,221 votes.
The constituency recorded a significant voter turnout of 63.05 percent in 2019.
As the last phase of elections begins, voting is taking place in 57 parliamentary constituencies in eight states and the Union Territories, including Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chandigarh, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, West Bengal and Punjab.
The 57 Lok Sabha seats from these constituencies are divided into 41 seats for the general category, 3 seats for the scheduled tribes and 13 seats for the scheduled castes. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is among the 906 contenders vying for votes in this final phase, in which 10.06 million voters will be able to cast their votes.
In the 2019 elections, the BJP had won 25 of the seats up for grabs, while the Congress won 8 and the Trinamool Congress won 9. The Biju Janata Dal won 4 seats and the Janata Dal (United) won 3; Bahujan Samajwadi Party, Apna Dal and Akali Dal won 2 seats each; and the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and Aam Aadmi Party each won a single seat.
Voting has been completed in 486 Lok Sabha seats spread across 28 states and Union Territories during the last six phases. The remaining 42 constituencies of the Odisha State Legislative Assembly are voting today.
While the people wait for the results of the elections, the counting of the votes is scheduled to take place on June 4.
(Entries taken from ANI)