Salman Akram Raja's plea against his independent candidature fixed for hearing

Salman Akram Raja's plea against his independent candidature fixed for hearing

Pakistan

Justice Baqir Ali Najafi of the Lahore High Court heads the bench

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LAHORE (Dunya News) – The Lahore High Court will take up the petition of Salman Akram Raja against his independent candidature in Feb 8 general elections today (Wednesday). 

A division bench, headed by Justice Baqir Ali Najafi, will hear the case. 

A day earlier, Raja challenged the Election Commission of Pakistan's (ECP) decision declaring him an independent candidate for Feb 8 polls, and filed the petition.

He pleaded the court to order the ECP to include his name as a PTI candidate in the ballot paper.

Raja's counsel Sumera Khosa stated in the petition that the Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) had been registered as a political party in the ECP’s record since 1996. However, it was deprived of its electoral symbol ‘bat’ for not holding intra-party elections, but it still exists as a political party.

Raja is contesting election as a PTI candidate from NA-128 constituency.