KARACHI: Five candidates – two from PPP and three from Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) have filed nomination papers for the election of Mayor slot, on the last day for submission of nominations for the election scheduled to be on June 15.
Similarly, six candidates from the PPP, JI, PML-N and PTI, have submitted nomination papers for the seat of Deputy Mayor.
For the Mayor’s slot, PPP’s Murtaza Wahab has filed nomination papers for the Mayor’s slot with Najmi Alam as covering candidate while JI’s Hafiz Naeem, Junaid Mukati and Advocate Saifuddin filed papers for the mayor’s election.
On the other hand, Saifuddin, Qazi Sadruddin, Salman Murad, Irshad Shar advocate, Karamullah Waqasi, Zeeshan Zaib, Akram Awan and PML-N’s Khawaja Shoaib have filed nomination papers for the city’s Deputy Mayor’s post.
Earlier, the PML-N’s elected chairmen decided to field their own candidate for the Karachi mayor’s office, while expressing their discontent with the decision of the party’s committee headed by Muhammad Zubair to extend support to the PPP.
The party’s UC chairmen had informed the PML-N Sindh president Shah Muhammad Shah about their reservations and asked him to decide the matter.
The total number of seats in the City Council is 371 and the Karachi mayor needs the magic number of 186 to win the majority in the council.
The election of the mayor and deputy mayor will take place on June 15. June 10 (today) was the last day to submit the nomination paper can.
The ECP schedule stated that the Returning Officer will check the nomination papers on June 11 (tomorrow) and the finalized list of candidates will be released on June 14.
On June 16, the Returning Officers will announce the results whereas the successful candidates will take oath on June 19.
