<p>The counting of votes for 2,302 wards of eight municipal corporations and 109 municipal councils and nagar panchayats is underway amid tight security. According to the data available, there was 71.39 per cent of the 39,15,280 electorate polling on February 14 in the state.</p> <p>A total of 9,222 candidates are in the fray for election in eight municipal corporations including Abohar, Bathinda Batala, Kapurthala, Mohali, Hoshiarpur, Pathankot and Moga, 109 municipal councils and Nagar Panchayats.</p> <p>The main contest in the urban local bodies is among the Congress, the opposition Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD).</p> <p>Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on the eve of ballot count termed the allegations of the BJP and AAP on rigging of civic polls as a typical case of crying foul in the face of their imminent defeat in the election.</p>
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