Sami Alizai terms vote-selling allegations a conspiracy

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Member Provincial Assembly belonging to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Samiullah Alizai on Thursday rejected the allegations of selling vote in the Senate election and termed it a conspiracy of a party’s provincial minister and other new entrants to defame him.

Speaking at a press conference here, Samiullah said that he had won the election as an independent candidate in the previous general election and later joined the PTI.

He said he had joined the PTI unconditionally and remained loyal to the party and never supported any pressure group against the Chief Minister Pervez Khattak.

Flanked by District Nazim Azizullah Khan Alizai, district councillors Usman Alizai, Malik Inayat and others, he said he had voted for the party candidate in the Senate election. “The Senate candidate we were asked to vote for has won the election. It is strange that I am accused of selling vote despite this fact,” he added.

Samiullah accused the Provincial Minister for Revenue Ali Amin Gandapur, a new entrant to the PTI Sheikh Yaqub and Pakistan People’s Party provincial general secretary and former deputy speaker National Assembly Faisal Karim Kundi of conspiring against him. “I am ready to meet PTI chief Imran Khan and Chief Minister Pervez Khattak and would do whatever they ask me to prove my innocence,” he offered. He alleged that Ali Amin Gandapur was behind this all episode.