Shikarpur by-polls: Imtiaz Sheikh approaching to take behind PS-11
Former PML-F lawmaker recently jumped boat to PPP. PHOTO: EXPRESS
KARACHI: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) motionless on Monday to give a Rangers and presiding officers judicial powers during a by-elections in PS-11, Shikarpur on Oct 20, 2016.
The chair fell empty after Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) lawmaker Imtiaz Shaikh assimilated a statute Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). The preference to give a Rangers judicial powers were done in a assembly headed by provincial ECP control Tanveer Zaki on Monday. It was also motionless that Rangers will be deployed inside and outward polling stations.
After these powers, a Rangers and presiding officer will be means to take prompt movement opposite violators of a ECP formula of conduct.
Shaikh and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl’s Nasir Soomro are a categorical contenders for Thursday’s contest. However, Shaikh appears to be in a clever position overdue to his ‘personal opinion bank’.
In a past, a subdivision has witnessed tough contests between Shaikh, a bureaucrat-turned-politician and PPP candidates. In a final ubiquitous election, Shaikh cumulative 35,010 votes opposite PPP’s Agha Taimor, who bagged 24,249. In a 2008 elections, Taimour was won as Shaikh bagged usually 13,765 votes after he ran as an independent.
“It is Shaikh’s personal change that led to his initial feat from a subdivision in 2002,” pronounced internal publisher Waheed Phulpoto. In that election, Shaikh had contested from a height of a Sindh Democratic Alliance.
“In a 2013 ubiquitous election, Shaikh had degraded a PPP candidate. Now, with a assistance of a PPP, he can get some-more votes than before,” pronounced a internal electoral observer.
Arrangements
The ECP has announced 29 polling stations ‘most sensitive’ and 76 as ‘sensitive’. “In a ‘most sensitive’ polling stations, Rangers and military crew will be deployed while usually military will be delegated in a ‘sensitive’ ones,” pronounced a ECP spokesperson, adding that strange CNICs will be compulsory for casting a ballot since use of lapsed though strange CNICs will also be permitted.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 18th, 2016.
Article source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/1201110/shikarpur-polls-imtiaz-sheikh-expected-take-back-ps-11/