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Police to look into Gidderbaha panchayat poll aspirants’ complaints of bias
Muktsar SSP Tushar Gupta asked SP (headquarters) Kamalpreet Singh Chahal to look into the complaints after 60 panchayat poll aspirants from Gidderbaha, led by Punjab Congress chief Raja Warring, met him on Thursday.
Muktsar senior superintendent of police (SSP) Tushar Gupta on Thursday asked SP (headquarters) Kamalpreet Singh Chahal to look into complaints of bias in the rejection of nomination papers of panchayat election aspirants from 29 villages of Gidderbaha assembly constituency.
The development came after Ludhiana Congress MP and state party chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring landed up at the SSP’s office with nearly 60 panchayat poll aspirants from Gidderbaha. The complainants accused the Muktsar deputy commissioner and Gidderbaha sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) and other officials on duty for the October 15 panchayat elections of being biased in rejecting their papers.
After the complaints were submitted to the SSP on affidavits, the SSP assured them that further action will be initiated on the basis of the outcome of the investigation by SP Chahal.
Warring warned of a gherao of the official residence of the DC as a mark of protest.
“It is being claimed that several of candidates had withdrawn their nomination papers. But the panchayat election aspirants have denied this. Rather, they say officials on election duty forged the documents to claim papers were withdrawn by the candidates. The Congress leadership stands firmly with its grassroots workers and we will support their fight by filing more petitions in the Punjab and Haryana high court,” said Warring.
