Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has demanded the Election Commission of Pakistan to allot the election symbol of ‘bat’ without delay, saying that if elections are held without the bat symbol, it will spread more tension. Unjustly imprisoned in Adiala Jail to exclude Chairman Imran Khan and his party from the political process.
In a statement issued by the spokesperson of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf, it has been said that PTI is the target of the worst state repression and shameful political engineering going on before the elections. Covering up’.
The spokesman said that the country’s most popular political party and the party with the support of more than three-fourths of the voting population is being targeted by a heinous conspiracy like technical knockout, the unjust imprisonment of founder chairman Imran Khan and Unconstitutional, illegal and undemocratic tactics were repeatedly used to exclude his party from the political process.
The leadership of Tehreek-e-Insaf said that the entire country is in the grip of unconstitutional, illegal, unrepresentative and undemocratic governments under the criminal goal of taking away the public mandate available to Imran Khan and PTI, May 9. After breaking up the Jamaat, jailing thousands of innocent workers including the founder chairman and blind and illegal use of state power, the people who are stubborn in supporting Imran Khan and Tehreek-e-Insaaf are a big challenge for the evil planners of the state.
He said that Election Commission has been entrusted with the central role in the nefarious plan to exclude Tehreek-e-Insaf from elections and politics. He tried to erase them from the political scene through illegal decrees, open malice and shameful discrimination, but he faced failure.
The spokesman said that the non-democratic and non-political circles who want to oust Tehreek-e-Insaf from politics have entrusted the commission with the goal of technically knocking out Imran Khan’s party in frustration and excitement. By depriving the basic right of the symbol, the series of depriving the majority voters of Tehreek-e-Insaf from their political identity began and to forcefully take away the electoral symbol of “bat” from Tehreek-e-Insaf, the intra-party elections conducted under the party constitution a year and a half ago An order was issued to hold re-elections without legal justification.
In the statement, the PTI leadership said that the Tehreek-e-Insaaf followed the illegal order of the 23rd November commission despite all reservations and conducted elections in a transparent manner under the party constitution before challenging it in the Lahore High Court. It happened for the first time that Imran Khan, the founding chairman of the country’s largest party with truly democratic traditions, voluntarily resigned from the post despite being appointed as lifetime chairman for the sake of democracy and rule of law. Instead of handing over the chairmanship of the party to one of his family members, he nominated an able and loyal worker of the party as a candidate for the post of chairman in the intra-party elections.
The workers of Tehreek-e-Insaaf expressed their unwavering confidence in the decisions of the founding chairman by electing Barrister Gohar Ali Khan unopposed as the chairman of the party in transparent elections under the party constitution under the supervision of the Independent Election Commission and then submitted all the documents to the Election Commission. went
The spokesman said that even after submitting the results of the intra-party elections collected through the Chairman Tehreek-e-Insaf, the Commission’s failure to issue election marks just 60 days before the elections is a matter of grave concern and a worst attempt of pre-election rigging. No less, strongly and emphatically pointing out that the Commission has no legal right to withhold the mark of the bat and there is no historical precedent for it.
The statement said that the nefarious attempt to grab the bat symbol by force is a shameful attempt to rob the constitution, democracy, transparent elections and their political identity from millions of Pakistanis and without this symbol on the ballot paper, the election will lose its significance and effectiveness. More chaos and tension will spread.
The PTI leadership said that the commission should abandon the practice of violating the sanctity of the vote on the impersonation of behind-the-scenes characters and immediately issue a bat sign to Tehreek-e-Insaf, while the spokesperson demanded the Lahore High Court to consider the sensitivity of the matter. The chairman should fix PTI’s request on 23 November 2023 for hearing and give an early decision.
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2024-08-27 04:25:06
