Chandigarh: May 6:Condemning the highhandedness and use of Police and musclemen by the Ruling Akali Dal to eliminate the Congress candidates in Zila Parishad and Block Samiti elections in Faridkot District, Congress leaders led by S. Avtar Singh Brar MLA(Faridkot) Vice President PPCC, S. Ripjit Singh Brar MLA (Kotkapura) General Secretary PPCC and S. Joginder Singh MLA(Panjgrain), Sh. Gopal Krishan Chatrath Chairman Discipline Committee, S. Bir Devinder Singh Chief Spokesman and Sh. Pawan Goel President District Congress Committee submitted a Memorandum to the State Election Commissioner Chandigarh.
Congress Spokesman S. Bir Devinder Singh said here today that the Memorandum has been submitted to register the protest and demanding annulment of the poll process described the events of nominations in detail how the nomination papers were snatched from the Congress nominees by the musclemen of the Ruling Party in the presence of Additional Deputy Commissioner and the SSP Faridkot who maintained criminal silence when the democracy was being murdered in broad daylight. He added that it was shame on the part of the District Administration and the Observer of Election Commission that the Dharna staged by more than 10000 persons under the Pradesh Co0ngress President Smt. Rajinder Kaur Bhattal was not even reported to the State Election Commission. He said that the people of the State have lost faith in the Deputy Commissio0ner, the SSP and the Election Commission Observer who kept mum on such ghastly incident and the Congress Party demands that the entire process of Zila Parishad and Block Samiti elections in Faridkot be annulled and fresh election process be started under the independent Observers from other States. He said that the poor state of mental health of the administration is reflected by the fact that the Nomination papers of 90% Congress candidates have been rejected by them where all the three Assembly Constituencies in the district are being represented by Congress MLAs. He added that Congress will initiate all peaceful and legal remedies for the restoration of democracy in the Faridkot district.