Party elections: Two Groups claim victory in PTI elections

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Party elections: Two Groups claim victory in PTI elections
By Our Correspondent
Published: February 14, 2013
LAHORE:
Both groups contesting the union council-level party elections of Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) have claimed to have won with majority in Lahore.

The Union Group, led by Ahsan Rasheed, and the Ideology Group led by Mehmood-ur-Rasheed held separate press conferences on Wednesday to announce their victories over the other.

Ahsan Rasheed said out of the 1,988 winning candidates, 1,481 were from Unity Group.

Mian Mehmood-ur-Rasheed said that 1,521 out of 2,180 winning candidates belonged to the Ideology Group.

Speaking on the condition of anonymity, another PTI leader said that no candidate was allowed to disclose his/her affiliation with any group under the code of conduct for the elections.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 14th, 2013.

 

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Elections at grass root are the new experience for us and these problems are expected to occur. Yet if we find democracy is the best way forward for National Assembly then this is equally the best way forward for the common man at this root level. I hope other parties will also start doing the same and allow their votors to elect their leaders instead of Mian Nawaz or Zardari picking most flattering ones.

Even though this is funny that two groups claim victory, this is a picture of what happens at National Level as well. Wait for PTI Election Commission to give their judgement.