PUNJAB SETS NEW RECORD

 Highest turnout: 76.63%
* Youth killed in Ferozepur firing
* Sporadic incidents of violence



The electorate in Punjab came out to vote overwhelmingly for the 117-seat Assembly elections today with 76.63 per cent (preliminary estimate) of the 1.76 crore voters exercising their franchise.

This is the highest figure since the state was reorganized in 1966, Election Commission sources said.



Barring sporadic incidents of violence that left a youth dead and some people injured, polling in this once militancy-ridden border state was largely peaceful with no report of booth capturing

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