Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) provincial head Ejaz Ch has said that the party supports the high court’s decision to hold local body elections as early as possible in view of Punjab government’s efforts for delaying these elections.
Addressing a local bodies’ workers convection in Sargodha, Ejaz Ch said that reason for the Punjab government to delay the polls was nothing but its pathetic performance. “They know with their present performance they will lose the elections. The constant economic pressures on a common man and the constant concessions to traders and the rich have proved that the PML-N is basically a party of the business class which only comes into power to make money and enrich their family and friends” Ejaz said.
He said recent increase in electricity prices at a time when massive load shedding was taking place even in the winter showed the government intentions to further crush a common man in the coming summer.
PTI leader Dr Yasmin Rashid said the federal government was now planning to hold a census mainly because it wanted the local body elections to be delayed so that the poor performance was not exposed in the elections results. He said the very fact that the government had insisted on holding non-party elections was a confirmation of the wrong intentions of the government.
PTI Punjab Secretary Information Andleeb Abbas said the KPK govt had done all the experiments to hold local bodies’ elections through biometrics but the government appointed wrong people in NADRA who were refusing to hold biometric elections while giving reasons which were not valid at all.
She said the PTI would protest against this attitude of NADRA’s and she demanded that elections based on biometrics be allowed in KPK and be made mandatory in all provinces.