have started bearing fruit.
The complete verdict of 80 pages in the NA-125 constituency is yet to come, but the election tribunal in its short order has ordered for re-election in the constituency, giving new turn to the already murky political scene.He questioned the justice system of the country, saying that a person, who had been de-seated by the election tribunal in the rigging case, had served as federal minister for two years.
Imran said that his party had been struggling for a year to expose rigging in the 2013 general elections but they were denied justice. “We were left with no option but to turn to the streets and protest against the government,” he remarked.
The PTI chairman pointed out that Jehangir Khan Tareen had spent almost Rs20 million so far to get justice in the election rigging case.About his own constituency NA-122, he said that National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) had to give a report on votes checked by it in the last week but it has not done it so far.
“The government is pressurising Nadra over the report on my constituency ... if Nadra fails to release the report this week, I’ll go to meet the authority’s chairman and ask him about the report,” he said.He charged that brother of Justice (R) Ramday, Chaudhry Asadur Rehman was Member of the National Assembly on a stay order from the Lahore High Court.
Online adds: Meanwhile, talking to Online, PTI Central Secretary Information said that election tribunal’s decision in NA-125 constituency has supported PTI’s stance on rigging.She expected the same verdicts in other constituencies and added that Saad Rafique, who is no more a minister, should accept tribunal’s result that he has come through rigging.
She stated that the result should have been announced in four months but it took two years whereas the PTI will again give ticket to Hamid Khan for contesting election from NA-125 constituency.Talking about Cantonment Board elections, she added that PTI’s leadership is looking into it.