Chandigarh: An SAD-BJP delegation today met Punjab Governor V P Singh Badnore and
urged him to direct the state government to scrap the Ludhiana municipal
corporation poll process and hold elections afresh.
The
delegation was led by senior SAD leaders Bikram Singh Majithia,
Maheshinder Singh Grewal, Dinesh Kumar and Rajinder Bhandari.
They
accused the Congress of resorting to "unprecedented violence" along
with "booth capturing and rigging" and alleged that democracy had been
"murdered".
Polling to 95 wards of Ludhiana Municipal Corporation
took place on February 24 with stray incidents of violence including
vandalism and firing incident marring the elections.
The SAD-BJP delegation demanded that polling be held again.
They
alleged that Congress leaders "misused" police personnel deployed
there, indulged in "booth capturing and bogus voting", as well as
intimidating SAD-BJP workers.
The delegation urged the governor
to direct the Ludhiana administration to register cases against
Congress' Ludhiana MP Ranveet Singh Bittu and MLA Bharat Bhushan Ashu.
It
is also requested that the governor directs the administration to
withdraw all false cases registered against SAD-BJP workers immediately.
PTI
