ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry has said that the PPP has been opposing open balloting for the coming Senate elections to keep up its vote-purchase tradition.
On a social media website, Twitter Fawad Chaudhry said that Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) can only win ten Senate seats from Sindh if they buy other party members
The minister asked the Supreme Court to make the chief minister’s statement part of its proceedings on the presidential reference on Senate open vote.
وزیر اعلیٰ سندہ کہ رہے ہیں ہم سندہ سے دس نشستیں جیتیں گےظاہر ہے یہ صرف تب ممکن ہے جب آپ دوسری جماعتوں کے ممبران خریدیں، یہ ہی وہ روایات ہیں جن کو جاری رکھنے کیلئے پیپلز پارٹی اوپن ووٹنگ کی مخالفت کرتی ہے اور خفیہ ووٹنگ پر زور دیتی ہے، سپریم کورٹ اس بیان کو اپنے ریکارڈ کاحصہ بنائے pic.twitter.com/pwpPFN66cQ
— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) February 14, 2021
The candidates, belonging to different political parties, are submitting their nomination papers for the Senate elections. So far, 10 candidates from Punjab have submitted their papers on 11 seats.
As per the new schedule, the list of contesting candidates will be published on February 16 and the scrutiny of nomination papers will be held on February 17 and 18.
The candidates can file appeals against acceptance or rejection of nomination papers on February 20 and the last date for disposing of these appeals is the 23rd of this month.
The candidates can withdraw their nomination papers on February 25 while polling for the forty-eight of the Senate seats will be held on the 3rd of March at the Parliament house Islamabad and the four provincial assemblies.
