Punjab unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party accused the Congress of booth-capturing and voter intimidation in several places in the state in the civic body elections on Sunday.
All senior Punjab police officers have become puppets of the Congress government and not taking any action against the Congress leaders, who have captured booths across the state,” said the state BJP chief and the Union Minister Vijay Sampla.
Sampla, addressing a press briefing in Gurdaspura near Sangrur, said: “Congress MlAs are roaming the streets of various cities of Punjab including Patiala, Jalandhar and Amritsar with goons and have captured polling booths. Our repeated requests to SSPs, DCs, and the Election Commission have failed to yield any action.”
He also called the ongoing civic body elections “farcical” while accusing the Congress party of “murdering democracy”.“Since Punjab Congress leaders are well aware that they would lose elections, they have directed their goons to capture booths,” said the state BJP vice-president Harjit Grewal.