MUZAFFARGARH: Jamshed Dasti’s Awami Raj Party (ARP) suffered a blow on Saturday when it lost, PP-270, Muzaffargarh, the only provincial assembly seat won by it, after a recount.
The District Returning Officer (DRO) ordered recounting of votes on a request by independent candidate Sardar Abdul Haye Dasti who had lost the seat to Ajmal Khan Chandia of the ARP.
After a recount, the DRO declared Mr Dasti returned candidate on PP-270 with a margin of a mere 17 votes.
ARP chairman Jamshed Dasti contested from two National Assembly constituencies NA-182 and NA-183 and a provincial assembly seat in southern Punjab district of Muzaffargarh, but couldn’t win a single seat.
The PPP candidates, Mahar Irshad Sial, Raza Rabbani Khar, and Nawazada Iftikhar Ahmad won three national assembly seats NA-182, NA-183, and 184, in Muzaffargarh, respectively.