— PTI seeks court’s intervention to defer polls till completion of electoral college
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Monday took a strong exception to the announcement of the elections for the slots of Chairman and Deputy Chairman of senate from an incomplete Electoral College and decided to boycott the unconstitutional polls, demanding the court to postpone the polls until the house was completed.
PTI Spokesperson said that the elections for the positions of the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Senate without the representations from all federating units was unconstitutional and unacceptable.
He vowed that PTI would not tolerate the insult of the upper house to select the unelected persons on the constitutional positions of the state from the incomplete Electoral College.
PTI Spokesperson made it clear that electing Chairman and Deputy Chairman of Senate in absence of senators from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) would be tantamount to murder of democratic values and traditions.
He lamented that the process of violation of the constitution and democratic principles by the unconstitutional government of form-47 continued sans any interval.
PTI spokesperson said that after the postponing the Senate election in KP, the election of the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Senate was a continuation of the conspiracy to ambush the public mandate.
He went on to say that keeping KP like important federating unit out of the electoral process was part of the nefarious and shameful attempts of a biased group to sow the seed to provincial discard and hatred.
PTI spokesperson vowed that they would not accept the Chairman and Deputy Chairman ‘selected’ from an incomplete house come what may. He urged that the court should take notice of the ongoing attempts to deviate from the constitution to elect Chairman and Deputy Chairman in absence of KP Senators and issued strict orders to defer the polls until the Upper House was completed.
PTI spokesperson made it clear that PTI would shield and safeguard the public mandate at every step and would resist any further undemocratic, apolitical and immoral experience in a befitting manner.
