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Congress, on the other hand, has a fairly strong sup port base in the 25 seats of the Majha region which includes border regions like Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Tarn Taran. If parties hold on to these strongholds, then the 23 seats in central Punjab with Phagwara, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur and others could well turn into battleground constituencies.
To shore up Congress’s chances, vice-president Rahul Gandhi addressed voters in key constituencies like Lambi and Sangrur hours before campaigning ended on Thursday and promised to end scourge like drug abuse and cancer.
Kejriwal, on the other hand, campaigned for lawyer H S Phoolka in Ludhiana’s Dakha constituency and alleged that the state government itself appointed a factfinding commission in numerous instances of sacrilege in the state but never made the report public. Sidhu chose to campaign for his old friend, former India hockey captain Pargat Singh, in Jalandhar Cantt.
After the votes are cast on February 4, Punjab will have to wait with bated breath for more than a month before results are declared on March 11.Till then, political strategists of all parties will have to pull out calculators and keep doing their arithmetic in the hope that they did not get the numbers wrong.
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