After the worst defeat in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa local body elections (LB Polls), Prime Minister Imran Khan has taken the initiative to reorganize the party. Before the second phase of KP elections, the Prime Minister also decided to consult the party leadership in Punjab. In this regard, Imran Khan will pay a one-day visit to Lahore today where he will be briefed about the upcoming local body elections.
Even before the next phase of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Prime Minister Imran Khan has also focused on Punjab. The Prime Minister of Punjab is looking serious to win the local government elections.
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KPK LB Polls: Sources said that on the occasion of his visit to Lahore, Punjab Chief Minister Usman Bazdar would brief the Prime Minister on the preparations for the local body elections while after the briefing Imran Khan would issue instructions to the Punjab leadership regarding the preparations.
According to reports, Prime Minister Imran Khan was received by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mehmood Khan yesterday, which lasted for more than two hours. The meeting was attended by Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and other leaders including Ali Amin Gandipur. Chief Minister KPK presented a report on the defeat of PTI in the local body elections. Sources said that Prime Minister Imran Khan expressed his indignation over the defeat of PTI in the local body elections and blamed the local leadership for the defeat.
According to sources, the party did not appear organized in the local body elections. Local PTI leaders disagreed with the nominees.
According to sources, the report said that the party was defeated due to lack of good election of candidates.
KPK LB Polls: According to the report submitted by the Chief Minister KP, traditional and hereditary political issues also led to the defeat in the local body elections.
According to sources, Prime Minister Imran Khan while addressing on the occasion said that the internal differences of the party benefited the opponents, now we have to learn a lesson from the results of the first phase.
According to sources, the Prime Minister said that no recommendation or bribery would be tolerated in the next elections. He said that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is our base line, we lost here due to internal incompetence which is a shame.
Political analysts say that after the defeat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, it seems that the Prime Minister has taken the initiative to organize the party himself instead of relying on chief ministers, governors, federal and local leadership. Only time will tell how successful they have been in this endeavor.
Political analysts say regarding the statement of JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman that if a little hand is moved then PTI has been defeated and defeated in the areas which are the stronghold of PTI.
Analysts also say that in the first phase, elections should be held in areas where the PTI was in complete control, but the results were against it. The defeated areas include Peshawar Valley, Mardan, Charsadda and Swabi and were strongholds of PTI. All the MNS and MPA seats in Peshawar City are held by PTI, while JUI-F has almost swept the mayorship apart from the mayorship. Only one chairmanship of Tehsil Council has come under PTI.
According to political analysts, as Maulana Fazlur Rehman says, the hand has been removed a little bit. The question is.