- Yasir Zafar Sindhu bags over 52, 000 while PTI manages to get 27, 619 votes
SARGODHA: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) nominee Yasir Zafar Sindhu on Sunday defeated Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidate Sajid Mehmood with a huge margin of over 25,000 votes in PP-30 by-polls in Sargodha.
According to unofficial results of all the polling stations, PML-N’s Sindhu bagged at least 52, 000 votes as against 27,619 of PTI leader. The total number of registered voters in the constituency is 1,73,919 out of which 98,145 are male, whereas 75,774 are female.
Speaking to media after winning the by-polls, Sindhu dedicated his victory to former party chief Nawaz Sharif and resolved the win the seat in the general elections as well.
The PML-N had the mandate and he won by the grace of God, he said, adding that every worker made efforts thinking of the by-election as his own contest.
SHEHBAZ, MARYAM CONGRATULATE SINDHU:
Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif also congratulated Yasir Zafar Sindhu on his victory. In his felicitating message, the chief minister said that triumph of Yasir Zafar in PP-30 is a proof of PML-N’s mass popularity. People want the development and by supporting the PML-N they have rejected the politics of lie, vengeance, and impeachment, he quipped.
PML-N will also win with a clear majority in general elections, he hoped.
Daughter of Nawaz Sharif, Maryam Nawaz said the “historic win of the PML-N could not be stopped despite having snatched its electoral symbol.” She congratulated the PML-N supporters over the victory in PP-30 Sargodha constituency. The seat was fallen vacant after the death of former PML-N MPA Tahir on January 8, 2018.
The polling started at 137 polling stations of the constituency in the morning amid stringent security arrangement, with 19 stations being declared sensitive by the authorities. Rangers and police personnel, including, two SPs, five DSPs, seven inspectors, and a thousand officers, had also been deployed in the constituency for security purposes.
At least 137 presiding officers (PO) along with 417 assistant presiding officers and 834 polling officers were assigned duties on the polling day.
Yasir Zafar Sindhu, a PML-N leader, was declared as an independent candidate by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) following a Supreme Court verdict against Nawaz Sharif, that declared him ineligible to head the PML-N owing to his disqualification under Article 62 (I)(f) in the Panama Papers case. The same verdict had also nullified Nawaz’s nomination of Senate candidates who then contested elections as independents.
PTI’s Mehmood had joined the party after he parted ways with Fazl’s Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F).