JACOBABAD: Representatives of Minister for Privatisation and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Member of the National Assembly from NA-196 Mohammedmian Soomro has announced boycott of the vote recounting in his constituency, NA-196 constituency Jacobabad.
Sukkur’s election tribunal had decided for recounting of votes after Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) candidate Aijaz Jakhrani had challenged the victory of PTI’s Mohammedmian Soomro in the 2018 general elections.
The representatives of PTI candidate in recounting of votes have alleged that the vote bags and envelopes have been broken and other material has been missing.
“The election tribunal’s order has been verbal and no written order has been issued yet,” claimed the PTI representatives.
“Broken bags and unsealed envelopes indicate a plan of rigging in the favour of rival candidate,” the party’s agents alleged. “Meanwhile the Returning Officer is not prepared to listen any complaint,” they claimed.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) began the vote recounting in NA-196 constituency in the light of the orders of election tribunal.
Earlier, on December 7, the ECP had deferred recounting of votes on the request of Mohammedmian Soomro till December 10. Soomro, who is a federal minister, had said that he could not attend the vote recount owing to a session of the federal cabinet.
Mohammedmian Soomro had won the National Assembly seat by securing 92,274 votes in the NA-196 constituency in general elections. PPP’s Aijaz Jakhrani was runner-up with 86,876 votes.
