- Hafiz Naeem announced to protest against vote recounting
- He said ROs, DROs were wasting Jamaat-e-Islami’s votes
- He announced to hold sit-in on March 10
KARACHI: Jamaat-e-Islami Karachi chief Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman has announced to protest against the recounting of votes in the union councils.
In a statement, he said the Returning Officers and District Returning Officers (DRO), who he claimed were working on the behest on the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), are wasting votes during recounting,
He said during the last three days, they have telling the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) that the ROs and DROs are involved in irregularities and flouting rules and regulations.
He said unfortunately, the election commission has not taken action, allowing the PPP to “cheat openly”. He said the Jamaat-e-Islami’s votes are being wasted in the recounting.
Hafiz Naeem announced to hold a sit-in on March 10, to protest the injustices and the irregularities in the voting recount.
It must be mentioned that Jamaat-e-Islami had earlier lost the union council seat in UC-6 Safoora Town in District East during the vote recount and the and the victory was handed over to the PPP.
The PPP has now won U-6 Safoora Town by 254 votes. PPP’s Ahmed Khan was elected as Chairman and Abdul Haq was elected as Vice-Chairman.
The union council was earlier won by Jamaat-e-Islami during the Local Government elections. The election commission had withheld the result.
Earlier, the ECP constituted an inquiry committee to heard complaint against regularities in LG polls in Karachi.
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja had vowed to rectify the anomalies in results and assured to take action against those responsible for committing irregularities.
The PPP emerged as the single largest party after the local government elections in Karachi held on in January 15 followed by the Jamaa-e-Islami. The ECP is yet to hold polling on the remaining 11 union councils to complete the electoral process in the city.
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