Six independent candidates in the poll fray for Chandigarh parliamentary seat submitted their expenditure details to the Chandigarh Election Department on Tuesday.
The independent candidates Ramesh Chander, Jasmer Singh, Ajay Singla, Pawan Kumar Sharma, Amarjit Kaur and Shamsher Singh submitted their expenditure details. The ceiling of expenditure for each candidate has been fixed at Rs 54 lakh in the Union Territory of Chandigarh.
Among the independents, candidate Pawan Kumar Sharma topped the list with poll-related expenditure of Rs 69,583. Other candidates Amarjit Kaur spent Rs 68,433, Ajay Singla Rs 67,818, Ramesh Chander spent Rs 59,140, Shamsher Singh spent Rs 45,622 and Jasmer Singh Rs 27,100.The UT Election Department has directed the candidates of Congress, BJP, AAP, BSP and Janta Dal (United) to submit their expenditure details by Wednesday.
EC organises street plays
The UT Election Department in association with NGO organised street plays on the theme “Samay ki kimat samjh kar matdan kendar jana hai” at Hallomajra, Ram Darbar and Plaza in Sector 17, here on Tuesday to spread awareness about voting rights.
The artists conveyed message that people can choose good leadership by casting their vote on the polling day i.e. April 10.The team of NGO educated gathered public based on free and fair polling in Chandigarh.
In addition to that awareness of EVM and NOTA to the voters of rural and remote areas of Chandigarh parliamentary Constituency has been created in Ram Darbar Phase-I and II, here.
BJP manifesto a cut and paste of Cong achievements: Bansal
After about a month of tireless campaign, Congress candidate and local MP Pawan Kumar Bansal ended his campaign on addressing a public meeting at Sector 20.Four-time MP Pawan Kumar Bansal who spent his last one month campaigning in each and every corner of the city said, he is confident of his victory.
In the last over one month, Bansal attended around 400 public meetings and Padyatra covering the entire city, its rehabilitated colonies, slums and villages. He lambasted the BJP for banking on self-hyped ‘Modi Wave’ which carried no weight in it, except being an example of spending extravagantly on branding him as its prime ministerial candidate. Bansal also announced to exempt ex-servicemen from property tax.
“When you go out to vote on Thursday, think twice if you want to vote for a performer whom you had seen all these years or outsiders who were there not in city but on big screens in cinemas”, appealed Pawan Kumar Bansal, closing his campaign right on time as per the EC guidelin