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LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday asserted the September 12 cantonment board elections spelled the “death of PTI’s politics”.
“The cantonment board is the place where PTI was born, and it lost the elections there — marking the death of its politics,” the Opposition Leader in National Assembly said while addressing a workers convention in Sialkot.
He pointed out that a “majority” of the voters in Punjab had opted for the PML-N. “PTI is installing its plaques on the projects of PML-N. They talk about establishing the ‘state of Madina’, but their actions are the opposite,” he added.
Shehbaz Sharif further said that people had voted for PML-N in line with their conscience. “In the last three years, people have been burdened with surging inflation,” he added.
“There is no doubt that there was no interference in cantonment board elections,” Shahbaz said, claiming that people were recalling the time of PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif when medicines were provided for free in hospitals.
“Prime Minister Imran Khan used to say that if the dollar goes up, even by a rupee, then the prime minister is corrupt; if the electricity bills witness a rise, then the prime minister is corrupt,” he highlighted.
He regretted that despite being a nuclear power, “Pakistan roams about with the begging bowl in its hand”. The PML-N president said the price of 1kg sugar had stayed below Rs52 during their tenure, while the current regime has taken the rate to Rs108-110.
Shahbaz claimed PML-N would win the next general elections, demanding that the polls be held in a free and fair manner. “If the elections are not held in this manner, then we will go the legal route, which is our right.”
PML-N sweeps Punjab
The PML-N emerged as the largest party in Punjab by winning 51 of the 113 wards in the province, according to the unofficial results of the cantonment board elections.
As per the unofficial results of the 113 wards, PML-N won 51 seats, followed by PTI with 28 seats. Independent candidates emerged victorious on 32 seats in the province.
Jamaat-e-Islami, meanwhile, managed to secure two seats in the province, while PPP failed to win even a single seat across the province.