Amritsar (Punjab) [India], June 1 (ANI): Congress MP and candidate from Amritsar seat, Gurjeet Singh Aujla along with his family members cast their vote in the seventh and final phase of the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 on Saturday.
Aujla extended his wishes to all the candidates and expressed confidence in winning the general elections.
"I extend best wishes to all the candidates. May God bless everyone. I would like to thank all voters across the country. This is the last phase of elections, our government is going to be formed on 4th June," the Congress leader said.
He is in the electoral fray against Taranjit Singh Sandhi, who retired after serving as the Indian envoy to the United States, AAP's Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, and Shiromani Akali Dal's Anil Joshi.
All 13 parliamentary constituencies of Punjab are voting today in the last phase of the Lok Sabha polls.
In the 2019 elections, Aujla won the Amritsar seat by almost 1 lakh votes. He defeated Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri.
The seventh and final phase of polling in the largest festival of democracy started on Saturday as voting started in the last 57 parliamentary constituencies at 7 am across seven states and the Union Territory of Chandigarh.
According to the Election Commission of India, over 10.06 crore electors including approximately 5.24 crore male, 4.82 crore female and 3574 third gender electors are expected to exercise their franchise.
A total of 904 candidates are in the fray for the final phase of polling. The prominent candidates in the fray in this phase include Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Ravi Shankar Prasad, Nishikant Dubey, Ravneet Singh Bittu, Congress leaders Manish Tewari, Charanjit Singh Channi, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Misa Bharti.
Polling for the earlier six phases of Lok Sabha elections was held on April 19, April 26, May 7, May 13, May 20 and May 25. Assembly polls have also been held in Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh. Odisha is seeing simultaneous polls to Lok Sabha and assembly in the last four phases. (ANI)
