Congress wins Punjab Zilla Parishad, Panchayat Samiti polls: State Election Commission
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Congress wins Punjab Zilla Parishad, Panchayat Samiti polls: State Election Commission
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The State Election Commission said that the Congress won 331 out of the 335 districts (district) council seats while the Shiromani Akali Dal 18, Bharatiya Janata Party secured two and the Aam Aadmi Party none.
Of the 2,8 99 zones of 150 Panchayat Samitis, 2,351 candidates of the Congress have won, 353 of SAD, 63 of BJP, 20 of them, one from CPI, SAD (Amritsar), two CPI (M) and 107 others, It said in a statement.
Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said while appreciating Congress's victory in the elections "this shows people have reposed their confidence in the Congress and extended their full support".
He rejected the opposition charge of misuse of official machinery in these polls, saying, "when anyone loses, what else will they say. They will not say they have become unpopular".
Singh described the landslide victory of the Congress in the Zila Parishad and Panchayat Samiti polls as an "acknowledgement of people's trust and confidence in its development-oriented policies and pro-people initiatives of the Congress".
The polling was held on September 19.
Singh hailed the Congress' victory as "yet another endorsement of his government's policies and programmes", and a "total rejection of the opposition's malicious campaign" against the ruling dispensation.
Main opposition party AAP had lashed out at the Congress, accusing it of winning polls by "misusing" the official machinery and intimidating opponents, while the Akalis too had levelled similar charges.
A legislator of your party Harpal Singh Cheema said, "This is a defeat of the opposition but the defeat of democracy."
