AMETHI, OCT 3: Priyanka Gandhi, who spun magic in this constituency, was virtually put under car arrest by the SPG on polling day today as she moved about as her mother's polling agent.``They (the SPG) are not happy with my movement. I am not allowed to get down from the car and am complying,'' she told a group of newsmen, lowering the bulletproof window of the Ambassador while moving about to supervise polling in the area where she has camped for nearly a fortnight to campaign for her mother.She left the guesthouse at Munshiganj at 11.45, followed by six cars of the SPG and local police, and stopped at the main gate. In her first public appearance today, Priyanka pointed at a Congress worker, alleging he was slapped by the BJP nominee, Dr Sanjay Singh, at Bandura polling booth in Amethi segment.With this, targetted at her mother's opponent himself, she set the day's agenda. During a whirlwind tour of the constituency, Priyanka stopped at several places, talked to the people, who thronged round the car atsight, levelled fresh charges of trouble being created by BJP workers during polling and then addressed mediamen with fresh lists of the places where Congress workers were harassed.She, however, was unfazed by reports, though later proved incorrect, of trouble at polling booth , and claimed, ``The people are with us and the polling was brisk. We have won. The question is of margin. The fairer the elections, the more will be the margin,'' she said at Rampur village.Amethi witnessed brisk polling since morning, with women not being outnumbered by men at polling booths. Polling percentage remained between 60 to 65 per cent and, barring stray incidents, remained peaceful.``The polling was peaceful, by and large, and no major incident of violence or booth capturing was reported from anywhere,'' said Sultanpur D.M. Anurag Srivastava.The day began with rain but this did not dampen the spirit of voters who lined up before polling stations, some of them like the one at Gauriganj, submerged in water. Happy withbrisk polling, Priyanka replied to a specific query on whether the BJP candidate would lose his deposit, saying, ``I hope so.''The car in which Priyanka was moving was like a mobile complaint receiving office of the Congress with more and more party workers thronging to it with fresh complaints. At Rampur, she was told that a party worker was hit by a bullet and sustained injuries at Danapur pollling booth. ``Have you taken him to the hospital?'' was her first reaction before she directed her car to move to the said booth. The report, however, proved incorrect. ``I am getting reports from various places that polling did not take place peacefully. I will lodge a complaint with the election office but will take a decision of asking for repolling only after getting confirmed reports of trouble in polling booths,'' she said.
