Woman MPA questions authenticity of list carrying names of ‘vote-sellers’

PESHAWAR: Member Provincial Assembly (MPA) Meraj Humayun Khan, who recently joined the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and was accused of selling her vote in the Senate election, on Friday asked her party Chairman Imran Khan to review his decision.

She demanded a probe as to why unauthenticated list was prepared for voting in the Senate election.

Talking to The News here, Meraj Humayun questioned the credibility of the list, which her party had prepared on a piece of paper that didn’t carry the signature of a responsible party leader. “Imran Khan should tell the nation when the investigation committee was formed? Who headed it and who were its members?” she asked.

She also questioned whether or not the probe committee had prepared a report mentioning the names of those lawmakers, who were accused of horse-trading in the Senate election.

Meraj Humayun asked the PTI chairman to share the recommendations of the investigation committee with them if he had received its report.

She said it was astonishing that she was accused of horse-trading by the PTI even though she had not joined it at the time of the Senate election. “I was a member of the Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) before the Senate election, but still my name was mentioned in the list of those PTI legislators who had sold their votes,” she pointed out.

“I remained with Chief Minister Pervez Khattak at Chief Minister’s House along with Nasima Hayat during the Senate election, “she claimed.

Meraj Humayun complained that PTI chairman had done her a great injustice by accusing her of selling her vote. She noted that Imran Khan should have confirmed the report before sharing it with the media.