PPP set to contest NA by-polls, local govt elections
akistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s victory in the PK-8 by-polls reflected people’s trust in the central ruling party. PHOTO: AFP
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) will contest the upcoming by-polls in two National Assembly constituencies and the local government elections in Karachi with full force, it was concurred in a meeting of the PPP Karachi Division on Friday with Sindh Labour Minister Saeed Ghani in the chair.
The participants of the meeting said the PPP's Sindh government had been carrying out development in almost all parts of Karachi without any discrimination and prejudice.
The meeting was informed that development projects would be initiated in the leftover areas of Karachi soon under the current financial year's Annual Development Programme (ADP) of the Sindh government.
The meeting took into consideration the upcoming by-elections in two constituencies of Karachi, NA-237 in District Malir and NA-239 in District Korangi, scheduled for October 16 and local government elections in the city on October 23.
Saeed Ghani, who is also the president of PPP Karachi Division, said that ample time of one month was available to PPP to conduct election campaign for the two by-polls while even one more week was available for further preparations for the local government polls.
Speaking on the occasion, PPP Sindh General Secretary Waqar Mehdi said that candidates belonging to the People's Party who had been contesting the local government elections in Karachi independently against the PPP's ticket holders should be persuaded to withdraw from the contest.
Sindh Local Government Minister, Syed Nasir Hussain Shah said, the policy of the PPP was very much clear about such cases as such independent contesting candidates who belonged to PPP had to face disciplinary action.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 17th, 2022.