Islamabad Mayor From PML-N, Embrace & Dubious Policy

The election of the new Islamabad mayor is an eye-opener for the triumphant Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) and partly reflects its dubious policy as the opposition party believes that the elections are systematically rigged but embraced the results of the mayoral poll with open arms, without any objections, and sans questions over transparency.

Pir Adil Shah from PML-N secured 43 of the total 73 votes required to become the mayor of the federal capital and govern Islamabad Metropolitan Corporation (IMC).

To a healthy extent, the outcome of the mayoral election certified the stance of PTI that interference in the electoral process is not their choice.

PML-N would have thought that the PTI, being in the government and support of other ‘centers’ of powers, would have ‘bought’ some candidates and secured the office.

The success in getting its candidate elected as mayor of Islamabad has brought ambivalence in the policy of PML-N as the party is part of the anti-government movement which stands on the claim that the general elections of 2018 were systematically rigged.

Although, the mayoral election in the federal capital occurs in-house and IMC’s councilors and members cast votes to choose the mayor. All doubts and questions have been buried as Shah won.

Interestingly, the winning party hasn’t questioned the transparency of election when its candidate has once again been elected as Islamabad mayor.

Had PML-N accused PTI of horse-trading if its candidate would have lost the mayoral election or it had accepted the results like it has of this poll?

Until now, it has not happened and no such questions were raised by PML-N after its own candidate was elected as Islamabad mayor.

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PML-N is celebrating the success and possibly forgot the standpoint it took after losing polls in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB). It appears that PML-N conforms to democratic values only when the ones it backs crush opponents and not-vice-versa.

Meanwhile, the queries still hold for ruling PTI which had tightened noose against ex-Islamabad Mayor Sheikh Anser Aziz who resigned from the office after reckoning that water has gone over his head.

Aziz was disappointed with the unruly interference in the matters of IMC by the city’s apex development authority, Capital Development Authority (CDA), and the federal government through the formation of a local government commission.

The ex-mayor was aggrieved as he believed that the PTI government had knotted his hands through the commission and IMC was being prevented to work for the masses.

Now that a new candidate of PML-N has won the election, the PTI government requires to display patience and should try to break the norm that workers of other parties aren’t let to perform by the sitting government through deliberate tactics to encumber performance.

The culmination of the conviction has gained weightage and significance as Anser Aziz resigned after complaining that he was made powerless by PTI.