Imran Khan announces sit-in against rigged elections

Lahore: PTI chairman Imran Khan has announced a big sit in at D choke Islamabad on Friday against rigged elections.He is also expected to speak on this occasion to the mob.

Earlier ,Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s leaders dismissed elections results.While calling Returning Officers responsible for rigging and misappropriations in the general elections, the leadership of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s demands recount on the basis of thumb impression’s audit in 25 constituencies of National Assembly including NA-154.

The PTI leadership turns down Election Commission’s decision of shifting the expenses of recount to the complainant by terming it unfair and unpleasant.

He told journalists about initial results received in the early hours of 12 May and had been widely published in the national media according to which he was declared as successful. However, according to him the results were being tried to be tempered by the “Returning Officer” through misappropriations and under the table rigging.

“My application for recount had been kept pending for three days after 14 May while my access to the record had also been denied by the election officials” he said by forwarding documented evidences to the media on the occasion.

“But once the process of recount started”, he told media “I found massive misappropriations in the process”. He said that out of 220, the seals of 170polling bags were broken while counter foils of around 26500 ballot papers were without the signatures and seals of Assistant Presiding Officers.

“Marked electoral rolls from five polling stations were missing while 934 unused ballot papers were also absent from the record”, he told media.
He told journalist too, “Ten tampered evident bags containing ballot paper count and statement of account were missing while there tampered evident bags were in the custody of presiding officer instead of returning officer”.
However despite all evidences of rigging and misappropriations in the polls, he expressed hope to win the race once the recount was completed by Tuesday evening.
Dr. Shireen Mazari, PTI’s Central Secretary Information Secretary in her words with the media, grilled Elections Commission of Pakistan for its scheme and subsequently potential cost of thumb impression’s audit through National Database and Registration Authority widely known as NADRA.
“Charging rupees ten or fifteen per vote from the aggrieved candidate who lodges an application for thumb impression’s audit owing to rigging or misappropriation in the polls is explicitly unfair,” she asserted.
“It is not only against the principle of fairness in the polls but will make justice very expensive or may be impossible in some cases,” she said. Therefore pressing ECP for withdrawing its notorious decision immediately she demanded to make elections more feasible and transparent.