KARACHI: Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarian Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that results of PS-11 Larkana by-poll will be challenged.
Taking to the Twitter Bilawal Bhutto Zardari held:
“We will challenge this rigging at every forum. The truth can’t be hidden. We will expose this selection. We will have a re-election and take back this seat.
“I’m proud of PPP workers for fighting an honorable election. Despite immense pressure form the establishment. From pre-poll with NAB arresting & sending notices to PPP workers & their families.
“On polling day, Rangers took over the inside of polling stations. harassed our women voters, threw out our polling agents, and deliberately slowed polling. Women polling stations where PPP preforms well were purposely started hours late.
“Since morning media was reporting women voters they were threatened them to vote for GDA. Despite our pleas, ECP did not take notice.
“Our candidate wasn’t even allowed inside polling stations. We kept asking ECP to intervene but its malafide intent was apparent in its silence. Despite all this political engineering PPP has reduced the GDA/JUIF/PTI+ lead by 5,000 votes in less than a year.”
Political Secretary of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Jameel Ahmed Soomro (R) who mustered 26,021 votes up.
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A relevant piece published earlier:
Larkana by-poll: Winning GDA/PTI candidate says PPP will be wiped out of Sindh by 2023
LARKANA: According to unofficial results trickling-in by midnight Moazzam Ali Khan Abbasi of Grand Democratic Alliance GDA)/Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has beaten Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) candidate Jameel Ahmed Soomro by bagging 31,557 votes against 26,021 votes that Political Secretary of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari mustered-up.
Winning candidate Moazzam Ali Khan Abbasi said that despite using the government machinery for winning the by-poll, the way PPP candidate lost in Bhuttos’ ancestral stronghold Larkana itself, manifested that PPP would be wiped out of Sindh by 2023.
Polling for the Sindh Assembly constituency PS-11 (Larkana-II) by-election that commenced at 8AM continued till 5:00 pm. Despite appeals for extension of the closing time polling stopped as per schedule. Though eleven aspirants were contesting the elections, main contestants were PPP’s Jameel Ahmed Soomro and GDA’s Moazzam Ali Khan Abbasi.
There are 1,52,614 (83,016 male, 69,598 female) registered voters out of which a sizable number of voters had used their right to franchise in today’s by-poll to elect their representative for Sindh Assembly’s PS 11 seat at 138 polling stations established by the Election Commission of Pakistan.
The seat fell vacant when the winning GDP candidate Moazzam Ali Abbasi was deseated by three-member bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan headed by Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed for not declaring his assets.
A couple of days ago Pakistan Peoples Party expressed its displeasure noting that Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman’s Jamiat-e-Ulema-Islam-Fazl was supporting Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf backed candidate. Interestingly, Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman’s Jamiat-e-Ulema-Islam-Fazl is spearheading an anti-government movement by means of Azadi March and staging a sit-in (dharna) in Islamabad.
Irked by Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman’s Jamiat-e-Ulema-Islam-F’s dual policy, President of the Sindh Chapter of Pakistan Peoples Party Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has asked Fazl to clarify his party’s position, does it act differently in the province?
“It is a dual policy of JUI-F to be PTI’s opponent in the Centre and an ally in Sindh. PPP is facilitating JUI-F for Azadi March in Sindh on the directives of Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and JUI-F is getting all possible help from Sindh Government but it is campaigning against PPP in the by-elections” Nisar Ahmed Khuhro held.
Pakistan Peoples Party held a number of public gatherings here to motivate party workers and voters ahead of the by-polls. Meanwhile, Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has been served three notices for visiting the constituency and campaigning for his party’s candidate violating the Election Commission of Pakistan’s rules that prohibit campaigning a couple of days before the polls.
Provincial Assembly of Sindh has a total of 168 seats, of which 29 are reserved for women and 9 for non-Muslims. Present Sindh Assembly harbors 99 PPP members, 30 PTI members, 21 MQM-P members, 14 GDA members, 3 TLP members and 1 MMA member.
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