PTI to ensure local body’s elections before November

Lahore:  PTI Sec General Jehangir Khan Tareen has said that PTI had put PML-N to make changes in the local government legislation as they had challenged the local government act in the court and has PML-N to hold party based election and also to change the delimitations to constitutional requirements.He was addressing the PTI Punjab’s meeting.

PTI Central Joint Secretary Shabbir Sial, MNA Shafqat Mehmood, MNA Rai Hassan Nawaz, Opposition Leader Punjab Assembly Mian Mehmood ur Rasheed, MPA Saddiq Khan, MPA Raheela Mehdi, MPA Nosheen Hamid Meraj, Vice President Malik Ameen Aslam,Regional Presidents Noor Khan Muhammad Bhabha, Sadaqat Ali Abbasi, President Lahore Abdul Aleem Khan and all districts & Tehsil Presidents and Gen. Secretaries, were also present on the occasion.

Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that the PTI Punjab had already forced the PML-N government to accept defeat in creating a local body law which was a copy of the autocratic system law made by the dictators. He said that this was a great victory for PTI in their fight for true democracy as PTI manifesto to promise total empowerment at the local level.

He said that the PTI would make a plan of how to ensure that the assembly passes the law to empower ECP to carry out the delimitation and ensure that the delimitations are according to the law. He said that PTI Punjab would made a comprehensive localized manifesto for each district and start campaigning to ensure that PML-N rigging in the elections does not succeed.

He also said that the PTI Punjab would be planning for the Youm-e-Tasees on the 25^th of April where Chairman Imran Khan would give his vision for future strategy for PTI. He said PTI Punjab was a model for all other parties and provinces to follow.

PTI President Punjab Ejaz Ch said that it was PTI’s Punjab’s objective to make a comprehensive plan for constantly working on the common man agenda by strengthening its provincial organizations. He said that a review and feedback consultative forum had been formed to work on the planning of the Youm-e Tasees and on the many issues of Punjab the PTI Punjab leads the way to prove to PML-N that at every platform at the media or the assembly or on the streets PTI will be the most important opposition barrier for the government in competence in corruption.

PTI Gen Sec Punjab Dr. Yasmin Rashid said that every district will be presenting there review report on what have they have done so far and what manifesto they have made for each dist acc to the local issue so that PTI could really penetrate to every street and corner and understand the issue and become a voice for the common man. She said that these forums where all the leadership of Punjab together reviewed the situation and made plans to move forward was a hallmark of truly democratic party where collective decision making on elected body represented the true strength of PTI.