PTI chief Imran Khan has allowed party rebels who were earlier denied tickets to file review appeals and constituted a committee to take up their grievances.
Alim Khan, representing all the rebel leaders, on Friday called on Imran Khan who was in the city to address a huge gathering of party workers and volunteers.
Khan and six other leaders representing PTI’s Lahore chapter returned the tickets the other day in a show of defiance against party decisions, which according to them left out several deserving candidates without party nomination for Lahore.
Talking to Pakistan Today, Jamshaid Iqbal Cheema, who also returned his ticket, said Imran khan had constituted a committee to look into their demands.
“The committee will start its work from Saturday and candidates earlier denied tickets will have the chance to appeal the board’s decisions,” he said.
He said the party should award tickets to at least 10 party leaders from Lahore.
“Five or six of them are most deserving cases,” he added.
Cheema hoped that the committee would revise the list to accommodate these deserving cases.
Meanwhile, party sources said chances of accommodating all members of disgruntled group were next to impossible and only minor adjustments in the list were possible.
The PTI released a list of probable candidates from Lahore the other day after its Parliamentary Board concluded its deliberation on award of tickets in Islamabad. The party decided to make formal announcement after the scrutiny of candidacy papers.
Talking to Pakistan Today, PTI information Secretary Shafqat Mahmood confirmed the meeting between Alim Khan and Imran Khan in Lahore. He said party leaders had the right to file appeals against the board’s decisions.