ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has announced that they are ready to hold re-elections under the army’s supervision in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s constituencies where allegations of poll rigging were made by opposition parties.
On May 30, the local government elections were held across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. However, different political parties staged protest against the alleged rigging in the elections. They also alleged that the PTI government used the state machinery to win the elections.
“We are ready to conduct re-polls in KPK,” Imran Khan said while talking to media outside the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in Islamabad on Tuesday.
Imran Khan said that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa witnessed the biggest elections in the country’s history. He said that it was the responsibility of the election commission to carry out elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, not the provincial government.
The PTI leader also regretted over allegations of poll rigging by their ally in the provincial government, the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI).
The ruling PTI won most of the seats in the northwestern province as a result of local bodies polls. But opposition parties alleged that mass irregularities and mismanagement took place in the elections.
The candidates belonging to the opposition parties also alleged that the PTI workers took away ballot boxes from the polling stations and torn out the ballot papers.
