LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz President Shehbaz Sharif has said that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) inquiry report on Daska by-election is an eye-opening account of how the Imran government attempted to steal the public mandate.
He was reacting to the ECP inquiry report on the recent Daska by-polls.
Shehbaz said the report is a slap in the face of cabinet ministers who raised a storm. The nation now awaits how the govt bigwigs are made to answer for their role in rigging, he added.
a report released on Friday by the Election Commission of Pakistan on the February by-poll in Daska’s NA-75 constituency has concluded that election officials, police and the local administration failed to play their “designated role in a requisite manner and were found [to be] puppets in the hands of their unlawful masters” during the by-election.
The controversial by-election was marred by violence, rigging and the disappearance of over 20 presiding officers (POs) and subsequently, a fact-finding inquiry was launched to probe into the irregularities.
Subsequently, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had withheld the results of the February 19 by-poll and ordered re-election in the entire constituency after suspicion that the results may have been falsified. The order was later upheld by the Supreme Court.
