The election campaign for the upcoming local body elections concluded this evening across the Municipal Corporation and Municipal Councils in SAS Nagar district. Polling will take place on May 26 from 8 am to 5 pm.
The district authorities confirmed that all necessary arrangements had been completed to ensure smooth, peaceful and transparent polling. Polling parties will be dispatched tomorrow from designated receipt and dispatch centres established across the district. The administration has set up receipt, dispatch, strongroom and counting centres at the following locations — Banur Municipal Council: Market Committee office; Kurali Municipal Council: Community Hall at the civic body office; Nayagaon Municipal Council: Century Public School, Karoran; Zirakpur Municipal Council: Community Centre in Chatt; Dera Bassi Municipal Council: Government College; Lalru Municipal Council: Government Senior Secondary School; Mohali Municipal Corporation (Wards 1–25): Receipt/dispatch centre at School of Eminence, Phase 11; counting centre and strongroom at Community Centre, Phase 7; Mohali Municipal Corporation (Wards 26–50): Receipt/dispatch centre at School of Eminence, Phase 3B1; counting centre and strongroom at Community Centre, Sector 69.
Sidhu demands FIR against Ward No. 10 candidate
Meanwhile, former Punjab Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu has demanded that the State Election Commission immediately register a case against Independent candidate Paramjit Singh Kahlon and his associates. Sidhu has alleged charges of storing illegal liquor to influence voters, threatening opponents with weapons and cheating against Kahlon.
Sidhu stated that his son, Kanwarbir Singh Sidhu — the Congress candidate from Ward No. 10 — caught individuals unloading a large quantity of liquor cartons at Kahlon’s Phase 7 residence (House No. 2590). Kahlon, a Congress rebel, is reportedly contesting as an Independent with the government backing.
According to Sidhu, the liquor was being unloaded from a black vehicle belonging to Punjab Police Inspector Balwinder Singh. He claimed that a police uniform, sharp-edged weapons and a large quantity of liquor were found inside the vehicle. Sidhu further alleged that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had backed Kahlon in this ward specifically to divide the Congress vote share and benefit its candidate.
