- Sarwar says solid proof of govt’s rigging to be brought before media this Monday
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) on Thursday announced to launch a movement after the October 31 local governments (LG) elections against what it called the government’s rigging, corruption and criminal attitude.
This announcement came during Thursday’s meeting between PAT Secretary General Khurram Nawaz Gandapur and PTI Punjab Organiser Chaudhry Sarwar at the PAT Secretariat in Model Town where the two sides held an-hour-long talks on the current political situation in the country.
Sarwar was accompanied by PTI leader Aleem Khan while Basharat Jaspal, Saeed Rajpoot, Ch Ishtiaq and Raja Zahid represented the PAT.
During the meeting, the two sides agreed to launch a movement against the government for its “criminal act” in the Model Town tragedy, its rigging in the elections and massive corruption of the Punjab government in uplift projects.
At the conclusion, the two parties agreed to form a six-member coordination committee for which names for three representatives would be announced by each party in the next week.
After the talks, Sarwar and Gandapur told the media that the real face of the rulers had been exposed after the Model Town incident and the implication of the heirs of the martyred PAT workers by the court was a shameful act. They complained that the names of the real culprits had not even been mentioned in the whole proceedings. They said the whole world saw the live coverage of the police brutality on PAT workers but the court did not even consider it while announcing its verdict.
They said the Election Commission of Pakistan had depressed the nation when in the darkness of night thousands of votes were transferred without bringing it to the knowledge of the contesting candidates. They also argued that the action against corruption was not even-handed but selective.
On the occasion, Sarwar thanked PAT chief Dr Tahirul Qadri and other leaders for their support and for withdrawing their candidates in favor of PAT candidates in NA-122 and PP-147. He said that his party would present solid proof against the government’s rigging in the elections before the media on October 26 (Monday).
He alleged that the NADRA and ECP had joined hands with the government, adding that a different set of voters list was provided to the PTI from the one given to the ruling PML-N’s candidates.
He said if the ECP had not been planning to commit rigging than it should have issued duly-signed and attested voters lists to all the candidates.
