The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Sunday urged Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Fakhruddin G Ebrahim to take notice of the distribution of 27,500 plots among PPP workers by the Sindh government to win votes in the upcoming polls.
In a letter written to the CEC and other members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), PTI Secretary-General (SG) Arif Alvi drew attention towards an advertisement published in a section of the press on Sunday, which stated that 27,500 plots were being distributed among ‘poorest of the poor’.
“I had received this information in December that the PPP intends to distribute 50,000 plots to its jiayalas in the last month before elections and had spoken on the same issue and also released a press statement, but as there was no evidence I could not pursue the matter. But now that the same unscrupulous scheme is being advertised, it is important that your office takes immediate action,” read the letter.
Alvi also said that the entire project was political in nature for which huge loans had been taken from international financial institutions for the project that will have to be paid off in the future and the money was being used today for pre-poll rigging to benefit the PPP candidates.
“On behalf of the party I request the Election Commission of Pakistan to stop this activity and that the project should be left for the next government to be carried out with much more transparency,” the PTI leader concluded.
