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Here's prasad and don't forget to vote: Chandigarh priests

Chandigarh: Not just prasad, you also get advice to vote when you visit various temples here now. Priests at various temples across Chandigarh are urging people to vote on election day.The auspicious period of `Navratras'

Out of the over 600,000 voters, nearly 46 percent voters are women in the city.

It is for the first time in Chandigarh that three out of the four contestants from major political parties are women.

Sitting MP Pawan Kumar Bansal, who was forced to resign as railway minister in May last year after his nephew Vijay Singla was arrested by the CBI after he took a Rs.90-lakh bribe from a senior railway officer to get him a lucrative posting, is being challenged by three women candidates - a first in Chandigarh.