The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday suspended the victory notification of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s AzharQayyum from NA-81 Gujranwala.
Sunni Ittehad Council’s Bilal Aijaz challenged AzharQayyum’s victory in the Lahore High Court. Bilal Aijaz, an independent candidate backed by PTI, was declared the winner with 117,717 votes while the PML-N candidate finished as runner-up with 109,926 votes Bilal in his plea stated that he was declared the winner with the lead of 8,000 votes, but in the recount, he was declared runner-up and PML-N’s candidate was declared winner.
However, following a request for a recount of votes, the Election Commission of Pakistan declared the recount in favour of the opposition candidate, AzharQayyum.
The plea further said that the returning officer had reduced petitioner Chaudhry’s votes by 2,500 during the recounting process, and sought cancellation of the PML-N leader’s victory notification.
