The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-Nazriati (PTI-N) Chairman Akhtar Iqbal Dar on Saturday denounced the submission of the “fake” nomination papers submitted by the Imran Khan-led party candidates using the name of party.
The upcoming elections just got tougher for the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) after Dar, the chairman of a separate faction formed by dissident leaders of the former ruling party, alleged that the former had “submitted fake” nomination papers.
Addressing a press conference in Lahore, the politico said he was surprised to see PTI candidates with his political party’s tickets appearing before the returning officers (ROs) as he did not allocate them.
He announced that a verified list of PTI-N candidates will be provided to the ROs to avoid confusion. Dar clarified that his party allotted the same tickets to its candidates that had been issued in the previous 2018 general polls.
“PTI-N has its own manifesto and programme, as well as a separate electoral symbol depicting ‘batsman’. A candidate can neither use platform of another political party during elections nor had my party signed an agreement with any party.”
Slamming the embattled PTI, Dar said that over the course of years, he felt that transparency and honesty did not exist in the Imran-led party which led to distancing himself from the previous party.
“It is the election commission’s core responsibility to trace fraudulent schemes of these candidates.”
The development came after PTI implemented ‘Plan B’ and issued fresh tickets to the candidates under the name of another party — “PTI-N” amid confusion over its iconic “bat” symbol.
In a statement, the party said that it has issued fresh tickets to the national and provincial assembly candidates and directed them to submit the declarations to the returning officer.
