Moga bypoll result today
Thursday, 28/02/2013
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20130228/punjab.htm#18
Moga : The counting of votes for the Moga assembly byelection will be held amid tight security at Bhupindra Khalsa Senior Secondary School here tomorrow.
At least 50 officials will be involved and CCTV cameras will be set up to monitor the process. The entire proceedings will be videographed, a spokesman for the district administration said.
District Magistrate Arshdeep Singh Thind today reviewed the security and counting arrangements. He asked the polling officials to ensure that they were told about the counting procedure so that they did not face any inconvenience. He told them to reach the counting centre at 6.30 am tomorrow so that the counting could begin at 8 am. The movement of traffic will be restricted on the road outside the counting centre.
Meanwhile, the Election commission has asked the counting officials not to allow polling agents of political parties to handle EVM machines and only keep them informed about the progress in counting.
It has also directed the officials to be cautious during the counting of postal ballot papers.
The polling for the Moga byelection was held on February 23. As many as 10 candidates are in the fray, but the contest is likely between the two main candidates, Joginder Pal Jain of the ruling SAD and Vijay Sathi of the Congress. PPP candidate Ravinder Singh Dhaliwal might upset the political calculations of any of the two main contenders.
The seat fell vacant after Joginder Pal Jain, who was elected to the state assembly on Congress ticket in the 2012 assembly elections, resigned from his position in December last year to joined the SAD. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal not only nominated him as Chairman of the Punjab State Warehousing Corporation but also gave him with the party ticket to contest this byelection.
Political pundits say Jain has the edge in the rural areas while Sathi got good response in the city. One cannot guess who will win this election but it seems that the winning margin will not be very high, they said.
Out of the total 1,79,752 electorates, as many as 1,30,296 (71.18 per cent) votes were polled.
