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GUJRAT: Wazirabad, the city of cutlery, wears elections colors as an army of political lieutenants from different parties have been working overtime on the streets and in adjoining rural areas of the town for over a week.
They are part of electioneering for the Feb 19 by-polls for PP-51, which will end late Feb 17. The seat was vacated after the death of PML-N MPA Shaukat Manzoor Cheema last year.
PML-N’s Talat Shaukat Cheema (widow of the former MPA), PTI’s Yousaf Araen, Jamaat-i-Islami’s Nasir Mehmood Kalair and TLP’s Sufi Nasir Jowinda are in the run for the seat.
A HANDOUT photo shows Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz vice president Maryam Nawaz waving to party workers in Wazirabad on Monday.
GUJRAT/LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) vice president Maryam Nawaz has said her party expresses sympathy with the PTI old guard who, despite having been steadfast with Prime Minister Imran Khan for 22 years, could not get party tickets for the Senate elections because these loyal workers can neither afford the expenditure of Mr Khan’s 300-kanal Banigala palace nor arrange a plane ride for him.
Addressing a rally organised by the PML-N for party’s candidate Talat Manzoor Cheema for the by-election in PP-51 Wazirabad on Monday evening, she said Imran Khan had given the Senate tickets to billionaires by ignoring the party loyalists because the MPAs belonging to the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf were slipping away from the hands of the prime minister.
Indecision mars PPP strategy on Punjab joint candidates
By-polls in Wazirabad, Daska constituencies scheduled for Feb 19
PPP chairman Bilawal Bhuto Zardari. SCREENGRAB
LAHORE:
With only two days to go to withdraw nomination papers in two constituencies in Punjab, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has yet to decide on fielding joint candidates with its once arch-foe the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) The Express Tribune has learnt.
By-polls in PP-51 Wazirabad (Gujranwala district) and NA-75 Daska (Sialkot) of Gujranwala division are scheduled to be held on February 19.
The last date for withdrawal of candidature is January 20 when the revised list of candidates would be displayed. The final candidates would be issued election symbols on Jan 21.
GUJRAT: A total of 22 candidates have filed their nomination papers with the returning officer to contest the by-poll in PP-51 Wazirabad (Gujranwala district) out of which at least six are vying for the PML-N ticket.
Moreover, 16 candidates have filed their nomination papers for the by-poll in NA-75 Daska (Sialkot) that include two daughters of the late PML-N MNA Syed Iftikharul Hassan Shah whose demise left the seat vacant.
Gujranwala Divisional Election Commissioner Majid Sharif Dogar, who is also the Gujranwala district returning officer, told Dawn that the lists of final candidates for both the by-polls had been displayed by the respective returning officers on Thursday.