Cantonment polls: Imran Khan to lead PTI rally on April 22

Khan to visit wards in both cantonments

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan is expected to arrive in the city on April 22 to campaign for the Cantonment Board elections.

Khan is expected to lead a campaign rally and visit several wards. The announcement was made during a PTI meeting on Sunday.

Talking to The Express Tribune, PTI Lahore information secretary Farrukh Moon said that Khan’s arrival would coincide with the conclusion of the party’s campaign in the Cantonment Board elections.

Moon said the April 22 rally was being planned to generate a surge of support for the PTI.

“The chairman is scheduled to visit wards in both the cantonments during his rally, which is expected to last four to five hours. The rally will start from Defence Chowk and is expected to conclude at the Saddar Chowk in Lahore Cantonment,” he said.

The candidates are expected to meet Khan during his visit to Lahore.

The party’s Lahore chapter has expressed reservations over the posting of Education Department officers as polling staff. It sent a letter to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), asking it to post federal government employees for the polls.



Another letter was also sent to the ECP on Saturday, demanding that Rangers personnel be posted at every polling station. PTI Lahore senior vice president Shoaib Siddiqi said that the party had serious reservations regarding the election process. “PTI does not want a repetition of the 2013 elections. The party is confident of its success provided unfair means are not used to alter the results. The party has a strong following in these areas,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 20^th, 2015.