Chandigarh: Nearly 77 per cent polling was recorded in the Punjab Assembly elections, which sealed the fate of 1,078 candidates including two Chief Ministerial aspirants Parkash Singh Badal and Amarinder Singh.
"The polling percentage is up to 77 per cent till 5:00 pm," Election Commission said in Chandigarh.
Even as reports of minor clashes were received from Bathinda and Ludhiana, the electoral office maintained that the polling was peaceful as no untoward incident had occurred in the state.
Reports said that some persons attacked Ludhiana's BJP Yuva Morcha General Secretary Sanjay Kapoor following which he received minor injuries.
As per another report, stones were pelted at the Dera Sacha Sauda office located on Amrik Singh road at Bathinda. However, after police intervention the situation was brought under control.
With the People's Party of Punjab led by former Minister, Manpreet Badal alleging tampering of some EVMs in Buddhlada, the CEO said, "there were some machines from the reserve stock being adjusted when some member from PPP thought there was some tampering going on, which was not the case".
Reports said that some machines which developed technical faults resulting in minor disruption of polling process were immediately replaced from the reserved stock.
Serpentine queues were seen at different polling booths across the state, reports said.
The fate of 1,078 candidates, including two Chief Ministerial aspirants Parkash Singh Badal and Amarinder Singh in fray for 117 Assembly seats, will be sealed on Monday.
The polling is taking place at 19,841 polling stations across 22 districts of Punjab.
Prominent candidates whose fate would be sealed today include the Chief Minister from his traditional Lambi Assembly seat, his predecessor Amarinder Singh from Patiala city, their sons Sukhbir Singh Badal (Jalalabad) and Raninder Singh (Samana), former chief minister Rajinder Kaur Bhattal (Lehra), former Punjab top cop P S Gill (Moga), former Principal Secretary to the chief minister DS Guru (Bhadaur) and former SGPC chief Bibi Jagir Kaur (Bholath).
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