LG by-polls expected after general elections

More than 15 municipal council members in the run

KARACHI:

More than 15 elected representatives of various municipal councils of Karachi are also contesting for national and provincial seats in the upcoming general elections.

Deputy Mayor Karachi Salman Abdullah Murad is an independent candidate from NA 230. Two town chairmen of Jamaat-e-Islami and one town chairman of PTI are also in the field of general elections on general seats.

Members of local councils elected on the tickets of PML-N, JUI, MQM and IPP are also running in the general election.

There are more than 15 candidates who are contesting for the second time in a year. Hafiz Naeemur Rehman, who was the candidate for city mayorship and as the chairman of the union committee of North Nazimabad Town, is also a member of the City Council of Baldia Uzma Karachi, is contesting the elections on two national seats and one provincial seat.

Gulberg Town chairman Nusratullah of JI is the candidate from PS-126 and Landhi town chairman Abdul Jameel Khan from NA-233.

Jamaat-e-Islami's elected UC chairman, vice chairman and local councils members Saifuddin Advocate, Akhtar Qureshi, Qazi Sadaruddin, Taufiq Siddiqui and Junaid Mukati are in the field for the national and Sindh assembly seats.

The elected local council member of PML-N Muhammad Feroze Khan is contesting from PS-88 while UC chairman Akram Awan on the ticket of PML-N is now contesting the election from PS-112 on the ticket of MQM.

People's Party's Najmi Alam, who is an elected member of the city council, is from PS-110, while Muzamil Shah, Bashir Brohi, Asif Musa, Malik Fayyaz are also PPP'scandidates in the general elections after their success in the municipal elections.

Imran Parwani, who was elected as UC chairman in the local body election on the PTI ticket, is also contesting the election on the provincial seat.

Among the independent candidates, PTI's Mominabad town council chairman Malik Arif Awan, who won the municipal election on a PTI ticket, is the candidate from NA-246.

If the elected members of local councils are successful in the general elections, one seat will be vacated as per the prevailing rules and by-elections will be held again on local body seats.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 9^th 2024.