ISLAMABAD: Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) parliamentary board failed todevelop consensus over party tickets for various constituencies.
The fissure between the two major political parties of the MMA, JamiatUlema-e-Islam (JUI-F) and Jamiat-e-Islami (JI), is widening with eachpassing day, as candidates of both parties are filing their nominationpapers from their respective parties instead of the MMA’s platform.
Sources said that since both parties have a considerable vote bank inKhyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), hence both parties came face to face against eachother in a number of districts, while other allied parties including JamiatUlema-i-Pakistan (JUP), Tehreek-i-Islami Pakistan (TIP) and Markazi JamiatAhl-e-Hadith (MJAH) did not have a vote bank enough to match the otherparties and hence, they were being given little importance in the alliance.
The MMA parliamentary board, which is jointly headed by JUI-F Chief MaulanaFazlur Rehman and JI Secretary General Liaqat Baloch, had to finalize namesof its candidates till June 5 for the general elections scheduled for July25, 2018.
However, the board had so far failed to evolve consensus since both theparties were striving to get the lion’s share, despite the fact that June 8is the deadline for submitting the nomination papers.