Punjab assembly poll 2017: Polling in Punjab ends, 83 per cent turnout in Goa
Author yuvamind
NEW DELHI: Voting for assembly poll 2017 ended in Punjab to elect 117-member assembly and 40-member House in Goa.
Assembly election ended in Goa with 83 per cent turnout today. Punjab is witnessing a three-cornered contest between ruling SAD-BJP alliance, Congress and AAP, which has claimed that it will repeat its Delhi success where it swept the election in 2015.
Goa in seeing a four-cornered fight with BJP, Congress, AAP and Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party-led alliance vying for mandate to rule Goa. Besides them, small parties and Independents are also in the fray.
Punjab poll live Updates:
• 83% voter turnout is recorded in Goa
• Polling in Punjab ends, people reporting to the booth up to 5pm will be voting
• Bike borne men open fire near a polling booth in Ferozepur district ' s Guru Har Sahai area, no injuries
• Goa has recorded an overall voter turnout of 67% till 3 PM
• Captain Amarinder Singh casts his vote at booth no. 89 in Patiala
• Voter turns out in North Goa 55%, in South Goa 52%. Total voter turnout in Goa till 1 pm 53%
• Very confident of our win, did door to door campaigns got positive response about my mother & father: Karan Singh, Sidhu ' s son
• BJP ka safaya hoga sab jagah se, aisa sanket mil raha: Lalu Prasad Yadav
• BJP-Akali Dal will win and Parkash Singh Badal will become the CM for the sixth time: BJP ' s Hans Raj Hans
• Navjot Singh Sidhu, wife cast their vote
• Will give Rahul Gandhi great gift with Congress ' revival, says Navjot Singh Sidhu as he arrives to vote at booth in Amritsar, with wife Navjot Kaur