Muzaffarabad Azad Kashmir: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) candidate Sardar Zia Qamar has contested in the by-election of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) LA-15 on Thursday, while the leadership of Muslim League (N) Allegations of rigging are being made. Analysts say that this is the beginning of Ishq Hai Ruta Hai Kya, Aad Aad Khatt Hota Hai, the powers that be have put the seat in the cradle of the People’s Party in spite of Maryam Nawaz’s campaign like they were put in the cradle of the PTI in 2018. was
The candidates of Pakistan People’s Party and Muslim League (N) ally in the center had a strong contest on this seat. This seat fell vacant due to the disqualification of Sardar Tanveer Ilyas.
According to the inconclusive and unofficial results of 189 polling stations, People’s Party candidate Sardar Zia Qamar has been declared successful with 25,755 votes, while Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) candidate Mushtaq Minhas has secured 20,485 votes. In this way, PPP has won this seat.
The seat fell vacant after the Azad Jammu and Kashmir High Court disqualified former Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas, who had secured 20,010 votes in the 2018 elections.
Eighteen candidates were contesting the election on this seat, including PTI’s Colonel (retd) Zameer and others.
The number of registered voters is 101,145 out of which the number of male voters is 53,107 and the number of female voters is 48,038.
Chairman PPP and Co-Chairman PPP Asif Ali Zardari congratulated PPP candidate Sardar Zia Qamar for defeating former minister and Muslim League (N) candidate Mushtaq Minhas in LA 15, Bagh of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. has given
Asif Ali Zardari has also thanked the people of Azad Jammu and Kashmir for trusting the People’s Party.
PML-N accuses People’s Party of rigging
Meanwhile, Muslim League (N) leader Hina Pervez Butt accused the PPP of rigging the by-election to the seat that was disqualified by a high court in April for former Azad Jammu and Kashmir prime minister Tanveer Ilyas. Then it was empty.
Hina Parvez Butt shared a video on her Twitter handle immediately after the polling ended and wrote that “people of the People’s Party in Kashmir were caught red-handed while rigging”.
کشمیر میں پیپلز پارٹی کے لوگ دھاندلی کرتے ہوئے رنگے ہاتھوں پکڑے گئے۔۔۔ pic.twitter.com/Oxcx6XOw99
— Hina Parvez Butt (@hinaparvezbutt) June 8, 2023
In the video, a man is heard saying he was at a polling station where another person, whom he did not identify, stamped ballot papers to rig the election.
“The entire polling station has been taken over… People of Ziaul Qamar (PPP candidate) first abused the presiding officer and then occupied the polling station. Rangers are also present here but they are not doing anything and Zia Qamar is sitting here.
Hina Parvez Butt shared another video on her Twitter handle in which a person is counting ballot papers marked with an arrow. He has written that “Pakistan People’s Party has shown its work in Kashmir as well. Fraud is unacceptable.”
پاکستان پیپلز پارٹی نے ٹھپے لگانے والا کام کشمیر میں بھی دکھا دیا۔۔۔دھاندلی نا منظور pic.twitter.com/XhSuRcHvit
— Hina Parvez Butt (@hinaparvezbutt) June 8, 2023
Meanwhile, PPP’s Faisal Karim Kundi congratulated his party on Twitter, saying: “Unofficially, PPP is winning by a huge margin in the Zia-ul-Qamar Bagh, Kashmir by-election.”
The official result of the by-election in Bagh-II constituency of Azad Jammu and Kashmir is yet to be declared.
Comment
Commenting on the victory of the PPP in LA 15 Bagh 2 constituency of Azad Kashmir, senior analysts say that despite Maryam Nawaz’s election campaign, the victory of the PPP candidate is proof that the powers that be have weighed in. PK has been put in the pile. The release of the ballot papers of the People’s Party candidate from the ballot boxes in the constituency dominated by the PML-N is a proof that the powerful constituencies have prepared a map of the future. Now, if it has to think, Muslim League (N) has to think about what its future course of action should be.