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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
Special Correspondent

Punjab all set for voting on Feb. 20

Punjab Assembly

Punjab will see a high-stakes Assembly election for the Congress, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on February 20.

Voting will be held in 117 Assembly seats, with 1,304 candidates, including 93 women and two transgenders, in the fray. Among them, as many as 315 have criminal antecedents.

The ruling Congress, which won 77 seats in 2017, faces challenges from the AAP, the SAD-Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) alliance, the BJP-Punjab Lok Congress-Shiromani Akali Dal (Sankyukt) combine, and the Samyukt Samaj Morcha (SSM), an amalgamation of 22 farmer outfits that participated in protests against the Centre’s controversial farm laws.

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