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KARACHI: Sindh government has announced a public holiday on April 29 (Thursday) in the NA-249 Karachi constituency due to by-polls.
According to a notification issued by the provincial government on Tuesday, April 29 will be a public holiday in the NA-249 Karachi constituency on account of a by-election to facilitate the voters to cast their votes.
The by-poll in the constituency is scheduled for April 29 and the electioneering in the constituency will culminate at midnight of 27 and 28 April.
The arrangements for the by-polls in the constituency have been finalized by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). There are a total of 339,591 registered voters in the constituency which include 201,656 male and 137,935 female voters. As many as 276 polling stations consisting of 796 polling booths have also been established.
The ECP earlier had asked the Karachi administration to appoint healthcare staff during the NA-249 by-election in order to effectively implement COVID SOPs during the polling process.
Major political parties including Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Pakistan Muslim League (N), MQM-Pakistan have fielded their candidates for the by-polls.
The NA-249 seat had fallen vacant after Faisal Vawda of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) resigned from the National Assembly for his Senate seat.
Faisal Wawda defeated PML N President Mian Shahbaz Sharif after a tough contest in the 2018 general elections. The PTI won the seat by just 718 votes.
