Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Aleem Khan on Wednesday challenged Election Tribunal’s verdict in NA-122 case in the Supreme Court (SC).
His lawyer Salman Akram Raja submitted a plea at the SC Lahore registry, terming NA-122 by-election rigged and non-transparent. He alleged that more than 30,000 votes were illegally transferred prior to the re-election in NA-122 after de-seating of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Sardar Ayaz Sadiq after general election 2013.
The plea stated the record of Election Commission of Pakistan showed that 26,000 new voters were registered and 4,600 votes transferred during last two years (after general election 2013). Only 812 voters had personally confirmed that they transferred their votes out of the constituency whereas votes of others were shifted against their will, it added.
Aleem Khan prayed the SC to annul the election tribunal’s verdict, maintaining Ayaz Sadiq’s win in the re-election on the basis of rigging. He also pleaded that the re-election of Ayaz Sadiq as Speaker National Assembly did not reflect public mandate.
PML-N’s Ayaz Sadiq took oath as Speaker of the National Assembly for the second time after winning the re-election.
