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Chandigarh, The Punjab Congress President, Mr Partap Singh Bajwa, today said theDhuri Assembly bye-election was an example of blatant and unashamed use of money, muscle power and misuse of official machinery by the ruling Akali Dal, the tactics that the party resorted to in the Talwandi Sabo bye-election also.
“For just one Assembly bye-election, the Chief Minister Mr Parkash Singh Badal, the Deputy Chief Minister Mr Sukhbir Singh Badal, the entire team of Akali ministers and MLAs camped in the constituency for several days thereby creating fear psychosis. The Akali activists from all over the state has descended on Dhuri. Added to it was the money power and the naked misuse of official machinery”, he added.
Mr Bajwa maintained that the Akali Dal resorted to such underhand means to confront the strong anti-incumbency. Mr Badal has started his election campaign by distributing money in the villages under his sangat darshan programmes within no time of the seat having been declared vacant and by the time the bye-election was announced, he had covered the entire constituency. He said this was the constituency he had never visited before ever since he had started his fifth term as the Chief Minister.
He said the outcome of the election was dictated by the factors that were not subjective.
