Lahore
(December 07, 2012) All claims of holding of
transparent elections of Chief Election Commissioner Fakharuddin G. Ebrahim have
been proved wrong by the govt. of Shahbaz Sharif, CEC should take notice of
rigging openly committed in bye-election
otherwise the political parties will
not trust the slogan of holding of fair and transparent elections. This was
stated by Pakistan Muslim League candidate in the bye-election from NA-107
Gujrat Rehman Naseer while addressing a press conference along with former
Provincial Education Minister Mian Imran Masood and former District Nazim
Gujrat Ch Shafaat Hussain and Additional General Secretary Nasir Mahmud Gill at
the Pakistan Muslim League here today.
Showing counter cards books of
ballot papers recovered from N-League workers to the media, he said that we
have produced empty ballot boxes before the media which has established rigging
by N-League, CEC should get these books examined to see to whom votes of these
numbers were have been cast adding that these ballot boxes were provided to
N-League workers by the presiding officers.
Rehman Naseer further said that
we were assured by the CEC that elections will be held in a transparent, fair
manner but the Punjab Govt. has established new worst ever records of rigging, harassment
and goondaism in the bye-election, rules and regulations of the Election
Commission were openly and flagrantly violated and on the orders of the Punjab
Chief Secretary, only 129 Rangers were deployed on 281 polling stations.
He said we pinpoint 100 polling
stations where recounting of votes cast would expose the rigging by N-League.
Former District Nazim Ch Shafaat
Hussain said that son of govt. candidate Malik Hanif was caught casting bogus
vote, this was also shown by the media but he was let off afterwards. He said
prior to the election Shahbaz Sharif had issued instructions to the govt.
machinery that no matter how but our candidate must win. Replying to a question,
he said that we have got Peoples Party vote because of which our vote bank has
also increased. Responding to another question, he said that Peoples Party
leader Waheeda Shah had slapped the presiding officer and she was disqualified
and here armed workers of N-League have been indulging in goondaism as such we
demand that sou moto action should be taken.
Mian Imran Masood said that
N-League candidate got 30 to 35 thousand votes through rigging, elections were
intentionally delayed on the pretext of Muharrum because Shahbaz Sharif was
receiving reports that the position of their candidate is weak, as such his son
Hamza Shahbaz and Sardar Zulfiqar Khosa in the Govt. Rest House worked day and
night to prepare and finalize plans for rigging, we demand of the CEC that he
should examine the live footage reports on TV before announcing the final
results.
He said the CEC instructions that
the govt. machinery will not be used in the elections, Police in uniform and
Special Branch officials will not be present at the polling stations, Rangers
will be present at the time of counting of votes, counting of votes will be
done in the office of the Election Commission and arms will not be publicly
displayed have not been followed by N-League candidate and did all what was
prohibited by the Election Commission and as such he should be disqualified. #
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