ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) spokesperson on Monday termed the NA-148 by-election as a “continuation of the public mandate theft” and another black spot on the face of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
However, he vowed that PTI would not give up its struggle from reclaiming its stolen mandate and supremacy of constitution and rule of law no matter what.
PTI Spokesperson expressed gratitude to the people of NA-148 for coming out in huge number to vote for the PTI-backed candidate despite adversarial circumstances.
He stated that those celebrating victory after flouting laws, using state machinery, and committing election rigging should be drowned in shame.
Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, who was elected as the Chairman of the Upper House from the incomplete house, should apologize to the nation, especially the people of Multan, for destroying the sanctity of the vote, PTI Spokesperson urged.
He asserted that if the father and in his son, the claimant of Bhutto’s political legacy, had any sense of shame or democracy, they would have preferred to drown in shame instead of contesting an election in such a fraudulently way.
PTI Spokesperson lamented that the shameful series of open discrediting of democracy and the basic constitutional right of the people to vote continues unabated in Pakistan.
He pointed out that in Sunday’s by-election in NA-148 Multan, the state machinery used the same old tricks of polls fraud, which were carried out on February 9 and April 21, adding that every fraud on people’s right to vote was facilitated by the criminals in the ECP.
PTI Spokesperson recalled that a member of the most crooked Gilani family of Multan was seen by the entire nation buying votes in Senate elections with bags full of money but the dishonest and unscrupulous Chief Election Commissioner avoided taking any action against Gilani’s son at that time.
He continued that the dishonest CEC was now providing justification of unlawful acts of this family on the behalf of the king of the jungle.
PTI Spokesperson made it clear that PTI would not give up its struggle of restoring the sanctity of the vote in the face of intimidation, lawlessness and polls robbery.
He vowed that they would fight the mandate thieves in every field, every forum and every level to get back the stolen people’s mandate.
