‘PTI, PML-N backed each other’s nominees in Senate polls’

NOWSHERA: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Sunday said his party had not taken any decision about taking part in the election for the Senate chairman and deputy chairman.
Talking to reporters here, he defended the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) strategy for contesting the Senate elections and these polls are fought on the basis of give-and-take. He said his party’s legislators were not involved in horse-trading in the Senate elections.
The chief minister said his party candidates for the Senate received votes from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and his party MPAs reciprocated by polling their votes for the PML-N nominees.
He said Awami National Party (ANP) and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) candidates received more votes than their strength in the provincial assembly and yet the two parties were levelling allegation of horse-trading against the PTI.
The chief minister said his party set an example in the Senate elections by discouraging the use of money. He claimed that the moneyed class would not even think of contesting Senate polls in the hope of buying votes in future.
“We put an end to the culture of horse-trading in the country,” he said.Pervez Khattak said his government had made arrangements for the local government elections and the delimitation was completed in April last year. “We have completed all the arrangements for holding the local government polls on May 30,” he added.