Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) further plunges into trouble before Senate elections as its Sindh organization leaders have opened up against the distribution of Senate tickets in the province.
PTI Sindh officials including Sadaqat Jatoi, Gul Muhammad Rand, Raja Jakhrani, Mubeen Jatoi, Mehfooz Arsani, and Allah Bux Anar held a presser in Karachi on February 15.
The leaders criticized the leadership’s decision to grant the Senate ticket to Saifullah Abro.
At the outset of the press conference, Sadaqat Jatoi said that they had not come to speak against their party but to express reservations about the selection of candidates from Sindh for Senate elections.
On granting a ticket to Abro, the leaders said the move has left party workers in extreme disappointment.
Sadaqat Jatoi said the entire organization of Sindh has reservations over the selection of Saifullah Abro on technocrat seat.
“Prime Minister Imran Khan had started a movement against corruption”, he added.
On one hand, the government presses for Senate elections through open ballot to end corruption and on the other, illicit practices are being done.
Sadaqat Jatoi urged the party officials to give Senate ticket to another competent and deserving candidate from interior Sindh instead of Saifullah Abro.
He wondered why Jatoi has been given a ticket even though he joined PTI in 2018.
“The people of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) are raising fingers at us”, he added.
Further, Allah Bux Anar noted that Abro fought in general elections 2018 on the electoral symbol of lock and managed to take only 7,000 votes.
He told that Abro is under trial by National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for corruption in a project worth Rs 90 billion.
PTI Sindh leader Mubeen Jatoi iterated that Imran Khan had promised to give Senate tickets to the party workers, lamenting that they were neglected.
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“The government should pay heed to why a campaign against a person was launched on social media”, he noted.
PTI Sindh leaders said that they have articulated reservations to Sindh Governor Imran Ismail regarding the distribution of Senate tickets.