party ticket but despite that he contested and won. In some of important seats of tehsil, wrong decisions led the party to defeat.
Independent candidates will form the alliance and will play a key role to decide the future of top slot of Abbottabad nazim. Sardar Sher Bahadar will be in the driving seat if PTI did not take any disciplinary action against him as PTI has warned all PTI candidates who were contesting in independent capacity of disciplinary action.
Our correspondent in Haripur adds: As per unofficial results of the local body election, the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf notched most of the seats at district level whereas independent candidates made the biggest gains at tehsil level.
From the two tehsils of Haripur district, Ghazi and Haripur which is further subdivided into 45 union councils, there were 171 candidates for district council where as 234 aspirants for tehsil. According to unofficial results collected from the returning officers of 43 union councils of Haripur at district level PTI secured 25 seats, independent candidates bagged 14 seats whereas PML-N won only 4 seats.
At 30 union councils, independent candidates triumphed by grabbing 18 seats. Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf 10 seats, PML-N secured 1 and PPP also managed to get only one seat. Kamal Ghaznavi district president of PTI and a candidate for tehsil council from Union Council Haripur City, Shumali, had also reportedly resigned from his post after losing election.
Results of remaining union councils were still awaited. Our correspondent in Mansehra adds: Independents candidates won 23 seats while Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) 17 and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) secured 12 seats of district council, according to unofficial results.
The PML-N leaders defended the parties performance in the election saying there was no threat to it. “The party will continue to win elections from Mansehra in future as well,” said a PML-N leader.
Meanwhile, talking to reporters, former provincial president of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Azam Khan Swati s shifted his government’s failure to hold free and fair elections on the Election Commission.“I am convinced that we couldn’t manage these elections well but it was the prime responsibility of EC to make these elections ambiguity-free,” he said.
The Senator said elections were held in more than 43000 constituencies/ wards in the provinces and KP government could not make these elections as hassle-free. “If rigging has taken place anywhere it would be be probed but those who are making such claims should also come forward with evidences,” said Swati.
He said that his party had never remained involved in any sort of rigging. “I would suggest that an inquiry should be carried out to first establish fact either rigging has taken palace or it is only based on conspiracy theory,” he said.