PDM Scores Landslide Victory Against PTI in By-Polls
Defeat in Karachi is disappointing as well as alarming for PTI which emerged as the biggest party of the metropolis by grabbing 13 of 21 seats of the National Assembly (NA) in general elections 2018
Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) candidates have defeated the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) by big margins in three by-polls held in Sindh and Balochistan.
The results are being considered a major blow to the ruling party generally and right before the upcoming Senate elections scheduled on March 4.
In PB-20 Pishin, Jamiat Ulema-Islam (JUI-F) candidate Syed Azizullah Agha obtained more than 15,000 votes while PTI’s Asmatullah Tareen could only get around 3,000.
PPP’s Jam Shabbir Ali defeated PTI’s Mushtaq Junejo as the former bagged around 50,000 votes while the latter obtained around 7,000 votes in PS-43 Sanghar.
Another major blow for PTI is the election result in Karachi’s PP-88 Malir.
PPP’s Yousuf Baloch clinched victory as PTI’s Jan Sher Junejo came third in terms of votes.
Opposition leader in Sindh Assembly and PTI member Haleem Adil Sheikh was arrested by the police for disrupting the polling process while the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) ordered his expulsion from the constituency.
The defeat in Karachi is disappointing as well as alarming for PTI which emerged as the biggest party of the metropolis by grabbing 13 of 21 seats of the National Assembly (NA) in general elections 2018.
Overall, the defeat of PTI and its allies demonstrated the ruling party’s sliding graph in Sindh and even in Balochistan, where it formed a coalition government with Balochistan Awami Party (BAP).
Further, the political observers believe that the results of by-polls are thus upsetting for the government.
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They added that ‘scroll of deeds’ of the PTI government has not been good. Therefore, the people vented their anger through the ballots and PDM candidates defeated PTI by huge margins in all three by-polls.
The people in Sindh and Balochistan expressed disapproval of the government’s policies which are converged in pointing fingers at the opposition rather than focusing on the problems of the common people.
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