CH Brothers congratulates Ch Nasir Mehmood Cheema on winning bye-elections of PP-97 Gujranwala

Lahore: Pakistan Muslim League (PML) President and former Prime Minister Ch Shujat Hussain and senior central leader and former Deputy Prime Minister Ch Parvez Elahi have felicitated PML candidate Ch Nasir Mehmood Cheema from PP-97 Gujranwala on winning the election.

In general Elections 2013 Nasir Mehmood Cheema had won with big majority but due to rigging result was tampered on which Nasir Mehmood Cheema had filed a petition against rigging before the Election Tribunal.

On the orders of the Election Tribunal, election was held again in the rigged polling stations including 7 of Qila Deedar Singh, 17 of Gakhar and 10 other polling stations. Earlier on, Ch Nasir Mehmood Cheema had secured 17187 votes on 85 polling stations out of 118 polling stations and leading by 837 votes against his N-League rival who had got 16250 votes.

It would be interesting to mention here that Nasir Cheema turned coat before the re-election in some of the polling stations and have joined  Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf .Provincial Organizer of PTI Punjab Ch Muhammad Sarwar had addressed the election meeting in Qila Deedar Singh declared him as a PTI candidate who contested on the election symbol of cycle and won the PP-97 of Gujranwala after re-polling on 33 polling stations of the constituency.

According to unofficial results, Nasir Cheema got 10,405 votes while Ashraf Warraich of Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) secured 9966 votes. Nasir Cheema thus emerged victorious in the overall election with a total of 27529 votes in the 119 polling stations while Ashraf Warraich secured a total of 26,216 votes.