Punjab elections: Navjot Singh Sidhu speaks on Kartarpur, Bikram Singh Majithia says vote for change

AMRITSAR: A day before voting for the Punjab assembly elections, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president Navjot Singh Sidhu and his rival from SAD, Bikram Singh Majithia, were busy in booth management, including monitoring and forming teams of polling agents on Saturday.
They met supporters and fans at the same time, welcoming workers and activists of opposition parties in their fold.
Both Sidhu and Majithia held meetings with members of their core teams to discuss election strategies and assigning poll duties. There was a rush of supporters and workers at Majithia's place since he has to form strategies for two constituencies - Amritsar East, from where he himself is contesting the elections, and Majitha, from where his wife Ganieve Kaur is contesting.
Sources privy to both informed that the polling agents were told to identify bogus votes if any, and their course of action in case they happen to come across such a situation. Duties were also assigned to separate teams for arranging refreshments between 8am and 6pm for polling agents in all 171 booths of Amritsar East.
Sidhu in his message on the eve of polling said: "Choice tuhadi hai, chittay di hattian khulwania nay ya Kartapur Sahib da langha khulwana hai (the choice is yours: do you want the drug trade or corridor to Kartarpur Sahib)?". In an emotional tone, the PPCC president said the city demanded business, peace and customers shopping in markets, malls and shopping plazas, and not fear, hooliganism and disorder. He said the foundation of peace in the state would be laid from Amritsar East assembly constituency.
On the other side, Majithia asked voters to vote for change, development and hope by getting rid of casteist and communal forces who had not done anything for the people of Amritsar East. Deputy commissioner Gurpreet Singh Khaira said the district administration had made all arrangements. Asked about sensitive assembly constituencies like Amritsar East, Khaira said for critical polling stations in vulnerable areas, they had made extra deployment of paramilitary forces.