RAJANPUR:Polling for by-election in constituency, NA-193 Rajanpur-1 began here on Sunday. The election is taking place after Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) rejected the Punjab government’s request to postpone polls, and decided to hold the by-election in Rajanpur.
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Polling which started at 0800 hours in the morning and will continue till 1700 hours in the evening without any interval.
According to information made available with MM News, as many as 11 candidates are in run for NA-193 seat that has 379,204 registered voters comprising 206,495 male and 172,204 female voters, according to the data issued by Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
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The constituency has 237 polling stations, of which, 68 are marked as highly sensitive and all the remaining 169 have been marked as sensitive, the ECP data suggests.
The seat fell vacant due to demise of PTI MNA Sardar Jaffar Khan Leghari.
Mohsin Leghari is the nephew of the late Jaffar Leghari. He is also regarded as the political successor of the late Leghari who was reportedly the most respected elder of the Leghari tribe. Mohsin served as the Finance Minister in the former coalition government of PTI and Pakistan Muslim League Quaid (PML-Q) in Punjab. He was elected to Punjab Assembly on PTI ticket from PP-293 Rajanpur in 2018 general polls.
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Ammar Awais Leghari is PML-N’s candidate for NA-193. He is the grandson of former president of Pakistan Farooq Leghari, the late chief of Leghari tribe, and son of Awais Leghari from PML-N who remained federal minister in 2017-18 in the then federal government of PML-N. Awais was then elected on Punjab Assembly’s seat PP-292 Dera Ghazi Khan in 2018 general elections.
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