In Jakhar’s home turf, Cong wins in 34 out of 39 villages
Tuesday, 01/01/2019
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Abohar : Even as Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president and Gurdaspur MP Sunil Jakhar did not visit his home segment during the panchayat elections, Congress activists emerged winner in 34 of the 39 villages in Abohar. Besides, there was not even a single complaint against the conduct of the election process.
Abohar : Even as Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president and Gurdaspur MP Sunil Jakhar did not visit his home segment during the panchayat elections, Congress activists emerged winner in 34 of the 39 villages in Abohar. Besides, there was not even a single complaint against the conduct of the election process.
As the ruling party had not allotted its election symbol to any candidate, there were Congress versus Congress contests in a few villages.
Among the prominent party stalwarts losing the election for the posts of sarpanch included Pratap Singh in Daulatpura, Gursahib Singh in Dalmirkhera, Sukhminder Singh in Patti Sadiq and Sushil Sihag in Dhinganwali.
Congress worker Sumitra Devi defeated her BJP rival to wrest the Dharampura panchayat from the SAD-BJP alliance after a decade with a substantial margin of 1,290 votes.
The Jakhar family has two native villages — Panjkosi and Maujgarh — in the subdivision. Panjkosi elected the whole panchayat unopposed after 25 years while Congress activists won the sarpanch seat and eight posts of panch in Maujgarh village.
On Monday, the Congress winners assembled at the Jakhar family’s house to congratulate former president of the District Youth Congress Sandeep Jakhar. He said those who could not win should not lose morale and should work together for development that was neglected during the 10-year regime of the BJP-SAD alliance. He said there would be no discrimination in release of funds for development.
“We have to initiate preparations to achieve ‘Mission-2019’ to defeat SAD-BJP candidates in the Lok Sabha elections,” he said.
