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Chandigarh: While officially the results of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee elections will be declared on September 22,but there are indicators that SAD-Sant Samaj combine would emerge winners. The combine had won 70 seats out of the total 170 seats as per the results received from the election offices of the party candidates. The heavy weights who have won are SGPC President Avtar Singh Makkar,cabinet minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan and Sucha Singh Langah,former minister Tota Singh,and former SGPC President Jagir Kaur. SAD spokesperson Daljeet Singh Cheema said that SAD-Sant Samaj candidates have won two seats out of 10 in Amritsar,while five of its candidates were earlier elected unopposed. In Bathinda combine candidates have won five seat out of nine,one each in Barnala and Fatehgarh Sahib,eight in Gurdaspur and five in Hoshiarpur.
Eager to see polls,youth killed in mishap
Jalandhar: The 17-year-old son of Jalandhars Senior Deputy Mayor Kamaljit Singh Bhatia died in an accident on Sunday. A tractor trolley hit the motorcycle of Charanpreet,the deceased,near Avtar Nagar around 9.15 am. Enthusiastic about the SGPC poll being held,Charanpreet a student of Class X had gone to a turban academy to tie his turban. He was returning home with a friend when the acident took place. After being hit by the tractor trolley,Chanpreet fell and the trolley ran him over. He died on the spot.
Bara Pind wins from Phillaur
Chandigarh/Jalandhar: Panthic Morcha candidate and alleged former terrorist Kulbir Singh Bara Pind,who has been acquitted in all the three cases registered against him by the Punjab Police,on Sunday won the SGPC election from Phillaur. Bara Pind defeated SAD candidate Nirmal Kaur Pasla of Akali Dal (1920) with a margin of 103 votes. He was contesting SGPC election on a ticket of Akali dal (1920). He was earlier acquitted in all the three cases by the court in 2008 in the lack of evidence against him.
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