The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has moved the Supreme Court to take notice of what they termed the Election Commission of Pakistan’s attempts at keeping party chairman Imran Khan out of by-election campaigning.
PTI central region Punjab President Mansoor Sarwar Khan submitted through counsel Hamid Khan on Monday a statement in the apex court, claiming that the ECP had mala-fide intentions in restraining parliamentarians from running election campaign.
The party insisted that the notification for the ban on campaigning was aimed at Imran Khan since he is the only MNA who does not hold any official position and therefore could run an election campaign.
The statement, however, endorsed the Lahore High Court’s order and subsequent ECP notification on May 7, barring MNAs and MPAs from entering constituencies at the time of polling.
According to Sarwar Khan, preventing the PTI chief from campaigning in the constituencies was a violation of Article 15, 16, 17 and 19 of the Constitution and therefore, the notification is liable to be struck down.