Partiality concerns: ‘Fair polls not possible under these officers’
PML-Q leadership says current district administration would favour Nawaz Sharif in elections.
File photo of Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain. PHOTO: EXPRESS
LAHORE:
Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leaders, Senator Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and former Deputy Prime Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi, have demanded that the Punjab district administration be changed if free and fair elections are to be held in the country.
The two PML-Q leaders along with PML-Q secretary general Mushahid Hussain and former MPA Moonis Elahi visited Yousaf Ahad Malik at his residence on Sunday to offer their condolences over the death of Malik’s father, Ahad Malik, a former member of provincial assembly.
Shujaat Hussain said for free and fair elections to take place in the country, it was necessary that the Punjab administration be changed. He said those dreaming of becoming prime ministers should first seek an interpretation of their dream from a ‘peer.’
He said Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz was not awarding tickets to its candidates because it feared that those left out would leave the party.
Hussain said the seat adjustment negotiations with the Peoples Party had not been completed yet. He said NA-105 (Gujrat) was traditionally a constituency represented by his father. “I have won five elections from this seat…Chaudhry Zahoor Elahi Shaheed [his father] also contested elections from here and now Chaudhry Parvez Elahi is a candidate from this constituency,” he said.
In reply to a question about PML-N not being faithful to the Like-Minded (Hamkhayal) candidates, Hussain said, “They should get over the shock first. Only then can talk open – what you sow, so shall you reap.”
Chaudhry Parvez Elahi reiterated the demand to change the Punjab administration. He said the current administration had been put in place by former chief minister Shahbaz Sharif and would favour former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif.
He said the officers had been told that whoever would ensure better results in favour of N-League, would get better postings after the elections.
He said the caretaker chief minister had held talks with the Election Commission of Pakistan in regard to changing the administration.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 1st, 2013.
Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leaders, Senator Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and former Deputy Prime Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi, have demanded that the Punjab district administration be changed if free and fair elections are to be held in the country.
The two PML-Q leaders along with PML-Q secretary general Mushahid Hussain and former MPA Moonis Elahi visited Yousaf Ahad Malik at his residence on Sunday to offer their condolences over the death of Malik’s father, Ahad Malik, a former member of provincial assembly.
Shujaat Hussain said for free and fair elections to take place in the country, it was necessary that the Punjab administration be changed. He said those dreaming of becoming prime ministers should first seek an interpretation of their dream from a ‘peer.’
He said Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz was not awarding tickets to its candidates because it feared that those left out would leave the party.
Hussain said the seat adjustment negotiations with the Peoples Party had not been completed yet. He said NA-105 (Gujrat) was traditionally a constituency represented by his father. “I have won five elections from this seat…Chaudhry Zahoor Elahi Shaheed [his father] also contested elections from here and now Chaudhry Parvez Elahi is a candidate from this constituency,” he said.
In reply to a question about PML-N not being faithful to the Like-Minded (Hamkhayal) candidates, Hussain said, “They should get over the shock first. Only then can talk open – what you sow, so shall you reap.”
Chaudhry Parvez Elahi reiterated the demand to change the Punjab administration. He said the current administration had been put in place by former chief minister Shahbaz Sharif and would favour former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif.
He said the officers had been told that whoever would ensure better results in favour of N-League, would get better postings after the elections.
He said the caretaker chief minister had held talks with the Election Commission of Pakistan in regard to changing the administration.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 1st, 2013.