PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari expressed resentment on Sunday over reports of alleged rigging in the local government elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, accusing the PTI of being behind the recent incidents in the province.
Taking to Twitter, Bilawal said that the ruling party “is resorting to violence and rigging,” trying to undermine the people’s choice. Referring to the fatal attack on ANP’s candidate in Dera Ismail Khan on Saturday night, the PPP chairman alleged
that the incident was also part of a series of events that emerged before and during the ballot. He said that the deceased candidate’s family has accused a PTI minister of “trying to bribe him [candidate] and later killing him.”
Bilawal linked the incident to that of the alleged pre-poll rigging that was reported from Peshawar’s neighbourhood council 34 on Saturday night and reports of polling stations being attacked during the vot-ing process on Sunday.
“In Peshawar PTI people were caught red-handed stamping ballot papers the night before polling. All day, there have been reports of PTI [members] ransacking polling stations attacking polling staff including women,” he wrote.
He said that the ruling party had taken rigging to a new level, which shows the “desperation and unpopu-larity” of the government it leads.
