We have witnessed for the past many years the same old faces contesting the election and getting re-elected to manage the club affairs. Mian Misbahur Rehman has been elected or selected, if you will, for the fifth time. How could the election be fair when only 1916 members out of the total tally of 4820 permanent members were lured in to participate in it? If it’s not mockery of the election of an elite club, what else is it? As part of back channel campaign, many members were dined, and all that goes with it, to win their votes. What attracts the old hands to remain in control of the club is the lucrative business deals worth millions of rupees the management awards to the contractors of supplies and provisions. Who doesn’t know the rather shady relationship between the contractors and those who hand out contracts? What about the old rule that a member could be chairman only for three terms? If there’s no such restriction, the craftiest of them all would never leave the chair. Therefore, this election must be declared invalid, new election held, making it mandatory that at least seventy-five percent of the permanent members cast their votes.
DR JAMSHED ANWAR
Lahore
I think 51% vote casting should be the minimum for Lahore Gymkhana Club elections. It is not that rules do not exist, but the fact that rules have been violated by successive Chairman and Comm of Management, who have gone berserk giving out hundreds of new memberships to a club, already burdened with surplus members. These very so called members of the elite bureaucracy have a tarnished service record, openly indulging in corruption under AZ. They are also members of Punjab Club, but they dare not behave like that, for they know that they would be censured by that club. In the recent elections, a front runner Aleem and members of Election Comm were removed, including a former Chief Justice Riaz for violatiing strict election rules that put a bar on canvassing.
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