ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan on Monday launched a mobile application for membership campaign and contact with the masses — ‘PTI Raabta’.
“There’s no doubt that initially the application will face some hiccups. However, setting up of the application is extremely crucial to make the party an institution,” Imran Khan said in a statement on the occasion of launching of the application.
He said he wanted to make the PTI such an organisation which had meritocracy and could run smoothly even after them. If meritocracy was not promoted in the country then we would be left with family parties only, he maintained.
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“The more democracy gets better, the more meritocracy prevails. In China’s system, meritocracy is probably even better than democracy. We want to end the politics of hereditary here,” he said.
The PTI chief said the purpose behind launching the application was making the party an institution and holding elections in the party.
“We already have a data of 2.7 million party members. Now I want all of you to become members on PTI’s Raabta application, specially the youth,” he said adding that the data could be beneficial by breaking it down to constituencies while allotting tickets as we could double check as to whom our members wanted to get tickets.
Admitting that his party gave tickets to wrong people in previous general elections, he said it was difficult for his party in 2013 and 2018 general elections to give tickets to 700/ 800 people and they faced problems in it.
“The biggest problem is when the nation becomes neutral and does not support what it considers to be right,” he said adding that when a nation becomes neutral, it vanishes.
Imran Khan said Pakistanis from all over the world could be members through PTI Raabta application.
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