KP LG polls defeat: Hasham Inamullah writes letter to PM against Ali Amin Gandapur

KP LG polls defeat: Hasham Inamullah writes letter to PM against Ali Amin Gandapur

PESHAWAR (Dunya News) – Pertaining to defeat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Dr Hasham Inamullah wrote letter to Prime Minster (PM) against Ali Amin Gandapur.

According to details, Hasham Inamullah mentioned that Ali Amin Gandapur gave party tickets to his opponents in constituency. He said that in Lakki Marwat party tickets were given to people who were not even party members.

He added that Ali Amin did not consult him while distributing party tickets and violated party’s ethical code. Hasham mentioned that he will initiate campaign against Gandapur soon which might become a reason of his disqualification from party.

He further requested that PM must take notice of the incident as various conspiracies his constituency is being used to malign party’s name.

It is pertinent to mention here that despite being in power in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) suffered a major setback after Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) candidate Zubair Ali defeated PTI candidate Rizwan Khan Bangash in the city mayoral elections .According to the unofficial results, the JUI-F candidate secured 62,388 votes while the PTI s Rizwan Bangash could grab only 50,659 votes.

Zubair Ali Khan defeated Rizwan Khan Bangash by a clear margin of 11,000 votes.

Earlier, Federal Minister Shibli Faraz said that performance of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in KPK local bodies election is not that bad. The Federal Minister while citing current wave of inflation said that PTI candidates in most of constituencies contested aspirants belonging to PTI itself.

Talking to media in Peshawar the Federal Minister expressed pleasure over what he referred as “peaceful conduct of polling” to elect members of new local government in the province.

Faraz further said that PTI has learnt a lot from current local bodies election and that the party will prepare well for next election.

Criticizing other contesting parties in polls he said that Opposition has no alternative future plan.

Shibli Faraz deplored violent clashes at polling stations resulting in loss of fives lives in different KPK cities.

On the other hand, PTI leader, KPK Minister Shaukat Yousafzai has also regarded price hike as major reason for poor performance of party in election.

While speaking to media Yousafzai vowed to lower inflation in country.

“ Prime Minister has realization about issue of price hike,” asserted the provincial minister.

Shaukat Yousafzai termed the conduct of polling an achievement of PTI Govt saying “grass root level elections at massive level are unprecedented in history of Pakistan” which have been fully participated in by people of province.

Referring to the incident of clashes, skirmishes during course of election, Yousafzai said no more than two or three mishaps took place.

Shaukat Yousafzai said thanks to God that there is no allegation of corruption leveled against PTI government.

‘PTI Candidates had no access to members of NA, KP Assemblies during local bodies polls which also led to defeat in election. PTI will win in next election as party vote bank has not declined’, concluded the PTI leader.