Fair Election Commission must for transparent polls, says Pervaiz Elahi

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said that the PML-N wanted to repeat history of rigging by getting Election Commission of its choice.

He said for blocking the way of rigging in the election, it is essential that impartial, honest and justice-minded members should unanimously be selected otherwise it would be impossible to stop organised rigging in the election that happened in the past.

According to a press statement issued Sunday, the former Punjab chief minister said this while addressing the workers and talking to the media at the residence of Ch Asghar Telwala in Gujrat.

Ch Pervaiz Elahi said fair election commission was necessary for transparent, fair and impartial election, and for this the parliamentary committee should also be reconstituted so that parliamentary parties not represented get representation in it and in this process all parties should be involved without any discrimination, election commission formed on the opinion of the parliamentary committee sans full representation of the opposition will remain controversial like in the past.

“Intense planning is being done to rig election once more by forming the election commission comprising former bureaucrats and favourite members obedient to the rigging master as had happened in the last election when favoured results were got in every province through favourite election commission and the chief election commissioner was also by-passed, we warn Opposition leader Khurshid Shah once again that he should make room in the committee for representatives of JI, Awami Muslim League and Pakistan Muslim League also, Ch Pervaiz Elahi said.