Meanwhile, Prime Minister Khan presided over a separate meeting on kharif crops, which was attended by all provincial agriculture ministers via video link. Of the remaining six tehsil chairman seats of Peshawar, the JUI-F managed to win four while the PTI could get one seat of tehsil chairman.įawad had earlier termed the JUI-F lead a victory of “extremist religious-political party” and called it “unfortunate” and “ harmful for the country”. JUI-F candidate Haji Zubair Ali secured 62,388 votes against 50,659 votes secured by PTI’s Rizwan Bangash. In the provincial capital, the JUI-F stunned the PTI with a definitive lead in the contest for the mayor of Peshawar city.
Īccording to the provisional results of 39 of the 63 tehsils declared by the Election Commission of Pakistan on Monday, the JUI-F not only won 15 seats of mayor/chairman but also gave a tough fight in many other tehsils where its candidates stood as runners-up. He said the ruling party had learnt a lesson from the first phase of the LG polls in KP and would field better candidates in the second phase. “This shows that the graph of the PTI has not declined,” he asserted. When contacted, Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said the PTI failed to clinch top slots in the LG polls but it secured majority seats at village council level. However, he denied that he and other like-minded MNAs were going to support any no-confidence motion against the prime minister. He believed the result of the second phase of the KP polls would not be different if the real issues were not addressed within two weeks.
He said he had to prove himself innocent before the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in an assets beyond means case after he had raised the issues that people at the grassroots level had been facing. The government could not be run by Twitter and social media accounts only, the PTI lawmaker said, adding that he had been highlighting the problems being faced by the people without any positive outcome. “We visited rural areas but were unable to convince people to contest the polls on PTI ticket,” he said, adding that price hike and unemployment were major factors behind it. The MNA said people in villages were unwilling to even receive PTI tickets due to government’s poor performance.
LOWEST GRAPHICS POSSIBLE DAY OF DEFEAT SOURCE TV
However, PTI lawmaker Noor Alam Khan, who returned to the National Assembly in 20 from Peshawar, told a TV show that the ‘wrong’ selection of candidates could not be blamed for the ruling party’s defeat in KP. Ist time in our 74-yr history we have an empowered LG system,” he wrote. “Directly elected Tehsil nazims will improve governance & create future leader. Local government elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were the start of a modern, devolved local government system as exists in successful democracies, the PM tweeted on Wednesday. Mr Khan is likely to preside over PTI’s core committee meeting on Friday or Saturday in which the root cause of its defeat in the KP province where the party has been ruling for nearly a decade will be determined.Ī source in the Prime Minister Office (PMO) told Dawn that the performance report was presented by KP Chief Minister Mehmood Khan who was also grilled by Mr Khan for not fielding ‘deserving’ and ‘poll-winning’ candidates.Ī day after blaming ‘ wrong selection of candidates’ for PTI’s defeat in KP polls, the prime minister said amidst all the noise over the election result, nobody appreciated the fact that the government had empowered LG system for the first time in 74-year history of Pakistan. ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday received a brief report on the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) defeat in the recent local government polls in its stronghold, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, indicating ‘wrong’ selection of candidates based on ‘favouritism’.ĭuring his visit to Lahore on Thursday (today), the premier will sensitise party leaders in Punjab to select best possible candidates and prepare well for the local government polls, which are expected to be held in the province in March or April next year.
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