Karachi, March 06, 2023 (PPI-OT): Islamabad (Staff Reporter) Minister of Labour and Manpower Sindh and President Pakistan People’s Party Karachi Division Saeed Ghani has said that an attempt is being made to make local elections of Karachi controversial under a conspiracy. The people of Karachi have badly rejected PTI and now they have resorted to thuggery.
The People’s Party has emerged as the single largest party in Karachi and, God willing, the mayor will also be ours. He expressed these views while talking to the media outside the Election Commission in Islamabad on Monday.
On this occasion, PPP leader Nasir Lodhi, newly elected Chairman Korangi Ahmed Raza, Habib Bangash and others were also present with him. Saeed Ghani said that the notification of the successful candidates of Karachi has been issued by the Election Commission yesterday and the results of 20 USCs have been withheld.
He said that according to the ongoing notification, the People’s Party has received 84 seats while Jamaat-e-Islami has received 82 seats. He said that the Election Commission withheld the results of 6 seats on Jamaat-e-Islami’s EMA and it was not justified after the Election Tribunal, however, the Election Commission decided to hear the cases of these 6 USCs itself and after that other parties including People’s The party also filed its cases in it.
He said that the Presiding Officers and the Returning Officer accused the Election Commission itself that PTI and Jamaat-e-Islami are constantly giving them a thread, but none of them have mentioned the name of the People’s Party because we understand.
That the municipal elections held on January 15 were the fairest and most transparent elections in the history of Karachi, in which not a single bullet was fired and no one was killed. In response to a question, Saeed Ghani said that thousands of POs and ROs have given their duties in the elections. Tell any POs or ROs that I called them before or after the elections.
“If we had rigged it, we would have won 125 USCs and formed the government alone,” he said. He said that the elections were very fair and transparent but PTI, which has been badly rejected by the people of Karachi, is engaged in conspiracies to make it controversial.
In response to a question, Saeed Ghani said that the People’s Party got seats from their own specific areas, but we do not discuss how Jamaat-e-Islami got seats and we also recognize their mandate, but we also recognize them as our mandate.
In response to another question, Saeed Ghani said that I am also the President of PPP Karachi Division and when the cases of my own people are going on here, I have come and will continue to come. He said that if anyone is hurt by my coming, I will continue to hurt them more.
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