Senior Congress leader and Punjab's Leader of the Opposition (LoP) Partap Singh Bajwa attacked the Bhagwant Mann government for campaigning in Gujarat leaving Punjab at no one's mercy.
The banners near the Ancheli Railway station and in the areas of the villages say, "Train nahi to vote nahi (no train no votes). BJP or other political parties should not come for election campaigns. Our demands are not met, so we are boycotting the elections."
Solan recorded the highest voter turnout with 76.82 per cent of the voters exercising their franchise. Shimla logged voter turnout of 69.88 per cent, according to the latest data.
Electors in Himachal Pradesh enthusiastically participated in the festival of democracy by casting their votes in the state Assembly elections on Saturday.
Himachal Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party chief Suresh Kashyap cast his vote in the ongoing Assembly elections on Saturday in the Pachhad seat in the Sirmaur district.
Congress has retained Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu who is the party's former state chief and who won in the 2017 Assembly election defeating BJP's Vijay Agnihotri. He is seen as one of the contenders for the top post of the Chief Minister in case Congress wins the Assembly polls.