PPP-W stage protest demonstration in front of ECP against violation of code of conduct

Published on September 14, 2017 by admin    ·(TOTAL VIEWS 807)      No Comments

LAHORE (UNP) A large number of activists belonging to Pakistan Peoples Party (Workers) on Thursdaystaged a protest demonstration in front of Election Commission office against the alleged violation of the code of conducts and non verification of more than 29, 000 votes in the NA-120 by-polls.

PPP (W) leadership demanding resignations from all the members of the Election Commission in regard of their sheer failure rendering their duties, said election commission seemed to fail to conduct fair and transparent by-poll in NA-120 and now it is stupidity to expect that the same incompetent election commission would be succeeded to hold upcoming general elections in transparent way.

Advisor to the slain PPP Chairman Benazir Bhutto Naheed Khan, PPP (W) president ex-senator Dr Safdar Abbasi, contesting candidate ex-MPA Sajida Mir and a large number of the party’s workers gathered in front of the ECP office and raised slogans against the alleged role of its members in support of the ruling party’s candidate Begum Kalsoom Nawaz, the spouse of the ex-ousted Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif.

Talking to media, Naheed Khan and Dr Safdar Abbasi said the election commission had terribly failed to compel the political parties to follow its codes of conduct and this failure on part of election commission has raised a question mark on its performance as well as its existence.

They said the ruling party’s ministers are using all the available government’s resources and administrative machinery to maneuver the results in the favor of their candidate and conducting rallies in sheer violation of the code of conduct of the election commission. They said under such circumstances it is now inevitable that all the ECP members step down from their seats and all the political and religious parties in and outside the parliament should set up a new election commission which will be independent and powerful.

They said they have serious concerns about the non-verification of 29000  votes in NA-120 constituency but the election commission is not taking this issue seriously.

Ex-MPA and the candidate for the slot of MNA in NA-120 Sajida Mir said the election commission fixed the limit of the expenditures up to Rs1.5 million during election campaign and on the other hand, the ruling party’s ministers, MNAs and MPAs are spending millions of rupees and their spending is increasing manifold as the by-polls is now imminent.

She said her only asset was her democratic ideology and it is the duty of the election commission to provide fair field to every candidate to contest elections.