With more than two crore total electors, Goa and Punjab went for polls on Saturday amid tight security arrangements. The two states witnessed 83 and 70 per cent polling respectively where electors sealed the fate of 1395 candidates in the fray.
During the polling, technical glitches and stray incidents of violence were reported in Punjab which is seeing a high-stake contest among Congress, new entrant AAP and ruling SAD-BJP combine.
Goa also saw one of its highest voter turnout with the ruling BJP engaged in a fierce fight with the Opposition Congress, AAP and an alliance of MGP, Shiv Sena and GSM for the 40-member House.
Here are some frames that capture the mood of the day:
b’A groom, along with his family, outside a polling station to cast his vote in Jalandhar on Saturday | Source: PTI’b’xc2xa0Voters standing in queues to cast their votes during the Punjab Assembly Election at a polling station in Patiala on Saturday | Source: PTI’b’Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal casting his vote for Assembly polls in Badal village in Muktsar district on Saturday | Source: PTI Photoxc2xa0′b’An elderly and a differently-abled woman, both on wheelchairs, coming out after casting their votes during the Assembly Election at a polling station in Patiala on Saturday | Source: PTI Photo’b’Union AYUSH Minister Shripad Naik showing his indelible ink-marked finger after casting vote at a polling booth in Goa on Saturday | Source: PTI’b’A girl, along with her family members, showing indelible ink mark on her finger after casting vote during the Assembly Election at a polling station in Patiala on Saturday | Source: PTI’b’A nonagenerian women is carried to help her cast vote for Assembly polls at a polling station in Amritsar on Saturday | Source: PTI’b’Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar in a queue outside a polling booth to cast his vote in Goa on Saturday | Source: PTI’b’The indelible ink is applied to a finger of a voter at a polling station in a village, about 25 km from Amritsar, on Saturday | Source: PTI’b’Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar showing his indelible ink marked finger after casting his vote at a polling booth in Goa on Saturday | Source: PTIxc2xa0′b’People standing in queues to cast their votes at a polling station in Jalandhar on Saturday | Source: PTI’b’Cricketer Harbhajan Singh and his mother showing indelible ink marked on their fingers after casting their votes at a polling station in Jalandhar on Saturday | Source: PTI’