AAP, Congress leading in 4 seats each in Punjab, Amarinder Singh leading in Amritsar

New Delhi – The counting begins for the 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab on Friday and all arrangements have been made for counting of votes registered in the EVMs. During the polling, 71 per cent of total 1.95 crore voters sealed the fate of 253 contestants, including 19 women for the 13 seats.

In Amritsar, there is a clash of titans between Congress’ Amarinder Singh and BJP’s Arun Jaitley while Bathinda also grabbed eyeballs as Congress candidate Manpreet Singh Badal is facing Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s daughter-in-law and sitting MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal.

Key candidates:

Captain Amarinder Singh Congress Amritsar

Arun Jaitley BJP Amritsar

Manpreet Singh Badal Congress Bathinda

Harsimrat Kaur Badal SAD Bathinda

Partap Singh Bajwa Congress Gurdaspur

Vinod Khanna BJP Gurdaspur

Ambika Soni Congress Anandpur Sahib

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