Veteran Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Khursheed Shah on Tuesday said the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) was waiting for the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) losing its cricket bat electoral symbol before beginning their election campaign.
Referring to the PML-N launching of its election campaign a day after the Supreme Court barred the PTI from using its electoral symbol, few weeks before the general elections slated for February 8. The top court declared the PTI’s intra-party polls “unconstitutional,” depriving its leaders of using bat symbol in elections.
In a statement on Tuesday, Shah said they wanted a level playing field for all political parties. The PPP stalwart said he believed that the PTI should participate in the election despite being deprived of their electoral symbol.
“The PTI did not implement the law while conducting intra-party election, therefore, they were stripped of the bat symbol,” he said.
He said it was the responsibility of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and other state institutions to hold free and fair elections. The general elections would be held on February 8 and there should be no confusion about it, he added. The PPP leader said all the parties would accept the results if elections were conducted transparently.
