Lok Sabha election phase 6: 4.3 lakh voters to go on poll date in Panchkula today in Haryana

PANCHKULA: The stage is finally set for electors of Panchkula district, as part Ambala parliamentary constituency, to exercise their voting rights to elect their next representative in the lower house of Parliament. All ten seats in Haryana will go to polls in the second last phase of the Lok Sabha elections on Saturday.

Among the 14 candidates who are in the fray from the Ambala seat, the main contest is between Banto Kataria of BJP and Varun Chaudhary of Congress. Banto is 59-year-old wife of late MP Rattan Lal Kataria, who had been elected from the constituency in 1999, 2014 and 2019. Varun is a sitting MLA from Mulana assembly (reserved) constituency. He is the son of senior Congress leader Phool Chand Mullana.

Kiran Punia from Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) and Gurpreet Singh from Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) are some of other contenders for the seat.

In 2019, Ambala constituency witnessed 71.12% voter turnout, with BJP's Rattan Lal Kataria defeating Selja of Congress by more than 3 lakh margin.

Panchkula and Kalka assembly constituencies in the district have 4.3 lakh voters, out of which 8,345 are first-time voters.

There are 424 polling booths in the district.

On Saturday, a mock poll process will be conducted at each booth at 6 am and after that the polling booth in-charge will make sure to clear EVM and VVPAT and will send all voting related reports within the prescribed interval.

Voting will start at 7 am and end at 6 pm. All the voters who are standing in line at the booths should be allowed to vote by 6 pm.