Enraged workers of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) attacked and manhandled the party’s central vice-president Azam Khan Swati on Friday, allegedly over allotment of election tickets to his blue-eyed persons.
The incident occurred during a party meeting at a local hotel when former UC Nazim Khalid Khan and his supporters attacked Swati shortly before he was scheduled to announce names of PTI candidates for PK-55 and PK-53.
The police, who reached the venue soon after the incident, took Swati out of the meeting.
Later, Khalid Khan alleged that Swati wanted to withdraw the ticket allotted by the party’s parliamentary board to Sajid Mumtaz Khan and give it to a newcomer in the party, Saboor Khan.
He said that Swati also spoke against the PTI candidate for NA-21, Nawabzada Salahuddin Saeed, in the meeting as his brother Laiq Mohammad Khan was contesting from the same constituency.
Swati’s secretary Mohammad Tufail said nothing serious had happened in the meeting except that Khalid was enraged at the party’s decision of allotting tickets to certain contenders.
Tufail claimed the PTI would win election in almost all constituencies in the district and that some people were creating hurdles for it.
He said the party’s parliamentary board was authorised to issue tickets to any applicant and Swati had no role in this regard.
