*LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former premier ImranKhan has rejected to contest general polls in the presence of the currentchief election commissioner (CEC). *
While addressing a protest in Lahore today, Imran Khan said that PTI willnot contest general polls in the presence of the current CEC.
He said that PTI has vote bank in all four provinces but the organisationof transparent elections was impossible in the presence of the current CEC.The former premier said that CEC Sikandar Sultan Raja defeated the PTI byreelections in Daska.
Khan said that the ECP rejected the recounting of votes in PP-07
The PTI chief also criticised the postponement of Sindh local government(LG) polls, saying that CEC has always taken decisions against the PakistanTehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
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He said that PTI had also approached the Supreme Court (SC) against horsetrading in the Senate elections. He censured that ECP kept complete silenceafter footage showed the involvement of Yousaf Raza Gillani’s son in horsetrading during the Senate polls.
“We are not only contesting the Punjab by-elections against the 12political parties but we are also fighting against the administration,state machinery and the election commission. The rivals have used alltactics to defeat PTI in the elections.”
