Commissioner Rawalpindi Liaquat Ali Chattha on Saturday resigned from his post and claimed that the February 8 elections were rigged and losing candidates were declared winners.
He made the claims at a press conference in Islamabad.
The commissioner said that election results were changed and claimed that candidates who were losing the election were declared winners with a lead of 50,000 votes each. He also accused Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja of being part of the rigging process.
Chattha said that returning officers under him changed results for at least 13 MNA candidates in Rawalpindi Division.
Rawalpindi Division includes Rawalpindi, Attock, Chakwal, Talagang, and Jhelum district.
Chattha said he was handing himself over to the police for rigging and he deserved capital punishment.
Chattha said he saw the returning officers crying.
He accepted that He was involved in rigging. He also accepted that they changed the results in favor of the losing candidate.
“We turned a lead of 70, 70 thousand into a defeat, I stabbed this country in the stomach, and it does not let me sleep, I want to die a peaceful death, I must be punished for cruelty, others must be punished too,” he said.
He said that he was urging the entire bureaucracy to not serve the politicians who were preparing to become ministers.
The commissioner spoke of his fears of a repeat of the tragic events of 1971, stating that he wanted to relieve himself of the burden on his conscience. He expressed a desire for justice to prevail, insisting that others implicated in the misconduct should also face consequences.
Amidst these revelations, Chattha made allegations of electoral fraud, claiming that 13 Members of the National Assembly (MNAs) were defeated in his division despite initially leading by 70,000 votes. He alleged that fake seals were used to cheat voters and implicated Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja in the wrongdoing
