‘PPP used govt machinery to reduce PTI seats in LG polls’

PTI Sindh president says his party has documented all rigging evidence

KARACHI:

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Karachi President Bilal Ghaffar has said that the Sindh Government machinery was used to reduce the number of seats his party had won in the recent local bodies elections.

He was speaking at a meeting of PTI's winner candidates in the LB election at the Insaf House Karachi on Thursday. Ghaffar alleged that election results were changed by manipulating statistics and creating technical faults. "In the LB election, the mandate of the people of Karachi was cleverly stolen," he alleged.

Other PTI leaders present in the meeting included Saeed Afridi, Riaz Haider and Gauhar Khattak. The meeting also offered fatiha for those martyred in the suicide blast at Peshawar Police Lines. "The return of terrorism in the country is a conspiracy of the enemies," he said while adding that "anti-state elements will never succeed in their evil designs."

While referring to the PPP, Ghaffar said that the mafia thinks it can easily throw dust in the eyes of the people of Karachi. "We have documented all the evidence of rigging including videos. We will not allow the PPP to get away with their rigging," Ghaffar said.

Ghaffar said that the PTI would not allow Pakistan People's Party to take over Karachi and Hyderabad local governments on the basis of a fake mandate. "This party first snatched bread from the people of Sindh and now it is stealing the mandate of people," he said while adding that PTI leaders in Karachi have been implicated in fake cases, but "we have to stand firm against this Zardari mafia."

Ghaffar congratulated all PTI's winners in the LB elections from Mominabad, Shah Faisal and Saddar Town. He called upon them to use their offices to serve the public according to the party's ideology.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 3^rd, 2023.