03062024-CT-01.qxd 03-06-2024 00:25 Page 1 c m y b Chandigarh tribune PAY MORE ON FOUR TRICITY TOLL PLAZAS FROM TODAY DAY AFTER, ANANDPUR SAHIB CANDIDATES RELAX NIHAAL CHEEMA WINS EUROPEAN GOLF MEET Road users will have to shell out Rs 5 to 15 more at major toll plazas in the tricity starting June 3. P2 Malvinder Singh Kang meets workers to get their feedback on voter response. P2 Local golfer Nihaal brings laurels to the city by winning the US Kids Golf European meet in Scotland. P3 » » 276 MOHALI 262 401-500 301-400 201-300 101-200 51-100 0-50 Tribune News Service SEVERE VERY POOR POOR MODERATE SATISFACTORY GOOD INBRIEF CHILD DIES IN ROAD ACCIDENT Chandigarh: A two-year-old boy died after being hit by a car at Industrial Area, Phase I. Raj Narayan alleged that the car, allegedly driven by Bhushan Kumar (64), hit his grandson named Vashu Mishra. The child was admitted to the PGI where he died. The car driver arrested and later released on bail. TNS MINOR ATTACKED IN SECTOR 41 Chandigarh: A 13-year-old boy was attacked with a sharp weapon in Sector 41. The complainant alleged that three unidentified boys attacked him near a gurdwara. He was admitted to the PGI. A case has been registered. TNS BIKER INJURED IN ACCIDENT Chandigarh: Ajay alleged that motorcycle rider Laxman of Mauli Jagran was hit by an auto near Daria. He sustained injuries and was admitted to the PGI. The police registered a case and arrested auto driver Dilshad. He was later released on bail. TNS WHAT’S ON APNI MANDI CHANDIGARH: Sectors 43, 45 and Maloya MOHALI: Phase V PANCHKULA: MDC, Sec 5 FACEBOOK/CHANDIGARHTRIBUNE Showroom gutted in fire at Mohali 216 PANCHKULA A long queue of voters outside a polling booth at Dhanas in Chandigarh on Saturday. TRIBUNE PHOTO: PRADEEP TEWARI Mohali, June 2 Two floors of a showroom in Phase 10 were gutted in a fire this morning. Since the incident took place early in the morning, no one was present in the building. The fire broke out in the office of a finance company on the first floor and it soon engulfed the second floor. Four fire engines were rushed to the spot. It took more than three hours and 15 refills from a Sector 67 mall to Had no firefighting arrangements douse the blaze. Fire officials said the fire was controlled before it could engulf the branch of a small finance bank. Fire officer Sikandar said fire engines were rushed to the spot from Phase 1, Sector 78 and Zirakpur. “There were no firefighting arrangements in the building. All documents kept in the finance firm’s office were destroyed,” he said. TRIBUNE PHOTO: VICKY Officials blame heat, summer vacation for slight dip in polling Residents of colonies allege mismanagement, say many failed to cast vote Sandeep Rana Tribune News Service Chandigarh, June 2 While the UT Election Commission has attributed lower voting percentage to heatwave and summer vacation, voters from colonies say poor management is one of the main reasons for low polling this time. In most polling stations in urban areas, people cast vote within a few minutes. But in small colonies, which witnessed huge crowds of voters, people had to wait for hours in the sweltering heat to exercise their franchise. At polling stations in some urban areas, e-carts were pressed into service to ferry people from the gate to the booth. The scene was chaotic in colonies where voters waiting in the scorching sun were jostling with each another to get their hands on water bottles or to find a spot near desert coolers. “Voters from colonies and CITY VOTING PERCENTAGE REVISED TO 67.98% FINAL MOHALI TURNOUT 61.01% The Election Department has revised the voting percentage in Chandigarh from 67.90 per cent to 67.98 per cent, with a 0.8 per cent increase. This revision accounts for an additional 540 votes, according to the department. Total votes Polled Turnout Kharar 2,80,593 1,59,386 56.80% SAS Nagar 2,33,175 1,40,267 60.16% Dera Bassi 2,96,951 1,96,234 66.08% 4,48,547 E-CARTS FOR SECTOR 16 VOTERS Eligible voters, out of a total of 6,59,805 exercised their franchise. The voter turnout in the 2024 Lok Sabha poll is the fourth highest in the past 12 elections. Total votes Polled Percentage Male 3,41,544 2,34,525 68.67 Female 3,18,226 2,13,995 67.25 Third gender 35 27 While residents of colonies waited for hours in the scorching sun, in Sector 16, where most bureaucrats reside, an e-cart ferried voters from the gate to the polling booth at Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 16. Only a handful of voters were seen at the booth at a time. villages are the ones who celebrate the festival of democracy enthusiastically, but they are neglected and treated like animals. There was no system yesterday. At a polling booth in Sector 53, there was one queue for five booths. People waited for four-five hours in queues in this extremely hot weather. Many of them left without casting vote. The voting percentage could have improved, had the crowd been managed well,” shared president of BJP’s Purvanchal Prakoshth Gopal Pappu Shukla. “The Election Commission talked of providing water, coolers and tents, but there was no such facility for most people in colonies. It was a joke with the poor as I saw people getting restless and fainting in the scorching heat. The administration should have set up more polling booths for them and made arrangements for separate queues for senior citizens and first-time voters,” he said, adding that the system failed completely. Chandigarh Tribune spoke to voters in Sector 25, Maloya and Dhanas yesterday. They said officials turned a deaf ear when they complained they had been standing in queues for hours. The Election Commission here has attributed 2.56% lower turnout than the last LS election to various factors. The total polling stood at 67.9 per cent. It was 70.54 per cent in the last LS poll and 73.69 per cent in 2014. A senior officer said, “First of all, there is a national trend of lower voting this time. Extended heatwave, summer vacation and polling on weekend are the other factors behind lower voting percentage. Importantly, to avoid heat, most people turned up in the morning, hence a huge rush.” He, however, claimed they provided all facilities and did their best to manage the crowd. Colonies in Kajheri, Dhanas, Maloya, Palsora, Dadu Majra, Mani Majra, Mauli Jagran, Hallo Majra, Ram Darbar and others saw serpentine queues of voters. Roughly, 46 per cent voters of the electorate reside in colonies. The gutted showroom at Phase 10 in Mohali on Sunday. Two snatchers land in police net Chandigarh, June 2 Two snatchers have been arrested by the UT police. Prince, a resident of Sector 52, had reported that on May 29, while he was on his way home on a bicycle, two scooter-borne miscreants snatched his mobile phone in Sector 50. The police said when a motorcyclist chased the 3 hurt as 2 cars ram into stationary truck Traffic police failed to remove damaged truck for more than 24 hours riedly barricaded the area. The car, which bore a Chandigarh registration number, was badly damaged in the accident. The victims were rushed to the hospital. A policeman was seriously injured on Saturday night after his car rammed into the same truck on the flyover. The truck caught fire. Fire engines had to be pressed into service to douse the flames. — TNS Sanjay Tandon with his family at his residence in Sector 18 on Sunday; and (right) Manish Tewari shares a lighter moment with senior leaders. TRIBUNE PHOTO After hectic campaigning, Tandon spends time with family, Tewari resumes workout routine Sandeep Rana BOTH CONGRESS, BJP DO OWN VOTING ANALYSIS, CLAIM VICTORY Tribune News Service The mangled remains of the car which rammed into the truck (inset) on the Kharar flyover near Daun village. TRIBUNE PHOTO: VICKY snatchers, they escaped into a forest area leaving their scooter behind. During the investigation, two suspects, identified as Vijay Kumar, alias Bitu, a native of Bihar; and Arun, alias Kancha, a resident of Maloya, were arrested. The police recovered Prince’s phone from them. —TNS GST collection up 6% in May TRIBUNE PHOTO: NITIN MITTAL Mohali, June 2 Two persons were injured after their car rammed into a truck, which was not removed from the flyover near Daun after it caught fire in an accident on Saturday night. Road users and local residents criticised the traffic police for not removing a truck involved in the accident for more than 24 hours from the busy national highway, which led to two accidents within 24 hours. Traffic remained chaotic on the flyover for more than an hour after the second mishap around 8 pm as the police hur- MAX 44°C | MIN 29°C YESTERDAY MAX 42.4°C | MIN 27.7°C SUNRISE TUESDAY 5.21 AM TWITTER/THETRIBUNECHD AIR QUALITY INDEX CHANDIGARH MAINLY CLEAR SKY SUNSET MONDAY 7.20 PM » MONDAY | 3 JUNE 2024 | CHANDIGARH FORECAST PARTY WORKERS KEEP AN EYE ON EVM STRONGROOM Even as elaborate security arrangements are in place at the National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Sector 26, where a strongroom for EVMs has been set up, workers of the BJP and Congress are keeping a vigil at the place. Though parties have not pitched tents outside the counting centre this time, their workers do the rounds of the centre on and off. City Congress chief HS Lucky said workers of the party were keeping an eye on the strong room. The result will be out on June 4. TRIBUNE PHOTO: NITIN MITTAL Chandigarh, June 2 After the polling and exit poll results, both the BJP and Congress are carrying out their own analysis and calculations of voting in Chandigarh. While the BJP concluded its assessment late last night, the Congress is yet to arrive at a conclusion. “We carried out exhaustive calculations about polling yesterday. We found we are going to win with an all-time high margin. The Congress even did not have its workers at about 100150 booths. The booths where its workers were present wore a deserted look at about 2 pm. <
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