PATIALA: All the pomp and show of the Sangrur Lok Sabha byelection campaign couldn’t lift the voters’ turnout in Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann’s own native village Satauj beyond 43%.
Out of the village’s 2,648 total votes, only 1,153 were polled on Thursday. Satauj is in Dirba assembly segment, while the CM represents Dhuri, which had the least turnout of 33% after Lehra’s 32%, by 5pm. At Dhuri’s Benra village that Mann had adopted in 2014 after becoming MP for the first time, the turnout was 44%. Of its 3,643 total votes, only 1,634 were polled.
