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Upcoming polls: Disgruntled PTI leaders to contest independently
ISLAMABAD: A delay in awarding party tickets to clean candidates on Monday almost caused a split within the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, with several party leaders deciding to contest elections independently.
Disgruntled PTI leaders said that a controversy arose on the ticket issue when the PTI parliamentary board failed to finalise a list of some 850 contesting candidates scheduled to be fielded across the country for the May 11 elections.
The board held its first meeting on March 24 to finalise the process of distribution of party tickets to clean candidates across the country.
PTI leader and former foreign minister Aseff Ahmed Ali was the first one who announced to contest elections from NA-193 and NA-140 as an independent candidate, a member of partys parliamentary board told The Express Tribune.
Similarly, former Senator Jamal Leghari and ex-MNA Owais Leghari followed suit, he added.
Furthermore, PTI leader Sikandar Bosan will also try his luck as an independent candidate in Multan.
Meanwhile, a member of the parliamentary board demanded that Imran intervene to review the decision of the board and take disgruntled workers into confidence. He claimed that PTI stalwarts Saifullah Niazi, Arif Alvi and Ahmed Jawed were also unhappy with the parliamentary boards performance.
Assef Ahmed claimed PTI Chairman Imran Khan failed to fulfil his promise of awarding tickets to true party stalwarts.
We have serious reservations over the decision of the parliamentary committee, he said.
However, Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri, who also filed his nomination papers in the same constituencies as Ahmed, not only expressed his full trust in the PTI top leadership but also denied allegations that he was opposing Ahmed. The party is awarding tickets on merit, he told The Express Tribune.
PTI Information Secretary Shafqat Mehmood said a final decision on awarding tickets to clean candidates would be taken on April 7. PTI central leader Ishaq Khan Khakwani told The Express Tribune that they have finalised awarding of party tickets in K-P and would take up Balochistan late at night.
ISLAMABAD: A delay in awarding party tickets to clean candidates on Monday almost caused a split within the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, with several party leaders deciding to contest elections independently.
Disgruntled PTI leaders said that a controversy arose on the ticket issue when the PTI parliamentary board failed to finalise a list of some 850 contesting candidates scheduled to be fielded across the country for the May 11 elections.
The board held its first meeting on March 24 to finalise the process of distribution of party tickets to clean candidates across the country.
PTI leader and former foreign minister Aseff Ahmed Ali was the first one who announced to contest elections from NA-193 and NA-140 as an independent candidate, a member of partys parliamentary board told The Express Tribune.
Similarly, former Senator Jamal Leghari and ex-MNA Owais Leghari followed suit, he added.
Furthermore, PTI leader Sikandar Bosan will also try his luck as an independent candidate in Multan.
Meanwhile, a member of the parliamentary board demanded that Imran intervene to review the decision of the board and take disgruntled workers into confidence. He claimed that PTI stalwarts Saifullah Niazi, Arif Alvi and Ahmed Jawed were also unhappy with the parliamentary boards performance.
Assef Ahmed claimed PTI Chairman Imran Khan failed to fulfil his promise of awarding tickets to true party stalwarts.
We have serious reservations over the decision of the parliamentary committee, he said.
However, Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri, who also filed his nomination papers in the same constituencies as Ahmed, not only expressed his full trust in the PTI top leadership but also denied allegations that he was opposing Ahmed. The party is awarding tickets on merit, he told The Express Tribune.
PTI Information Secretary Shafqat Mehmood said a final decision on awarding tickets to clean candidates would be taken on April 7. PTI central leader Ishaq Khan Khakwani told The Express Tribune that they have finalised awarding of party tickets in K-P and would take up Balochistan late at night.
