By-polls: ‘Rigging trumped change agenda’

Imran Khan has said the promised change that his party had vowed to bring forth was thwarted by rigging in elections.

ABBOTTABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has said the promised change that his party had vowed to bring forth was thwarted by rigging in last year’s general elections. He was speaking to voters of PK-45 constituency in Moliya and Boi villages in Bakot circle on the last day of election campaigning before by-polls on June 5. Reiterating his party’s stance of holding a transparent by-election, Imran said PTI was struggling to make a new Pakistan and ending the hegemony of the corrupt. He accused the ruling party in the centre of planning to rig the by-elections, adding the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa governor was using official resources to help his cousin, who is the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate. He asked the Election Commission of Pakistan to take notice of the governor’s interference in the constituency and said those who have voted for PML-N in the past should realise that the Sharif brothers’ only concern is about their personal development.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, June 4^th, 2014.