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DACCA: The voters will go to polls tomorrow morning [Jan 17] to elect 30 members of the National and Provincial Assemblies in seven districts including the cyclone and tidal wave affected areas of four coastal districts Bakerganj, Pataukhali, Noakhli and Chittagong. Polling for 27 seats of the National and Provincial Assemblies in the disaster areas will be held simultaneously. Of the total 30 seats three are for the Provincial Assembly..
The polling centres will remain open for eight hours between 8-30 a.m. and 4-30 p.m. without break. In all 141 candidates of different political parties, including independents are contesting against 30 nominees of the Awami League, which has already become singular majority party in both National and East Pakistan Assemblies in the nation’s general elections held in December last year. The Awami League won 151 National Assembly seats out of 153 . and 268 Provincial Assembly seats out of 279..
Vote against party dishonesty: Supreme Court
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has observed that elected representatives are answerable both to voters and party and they must follow the party line while voting through a secret ballot.
It also observed: “If one does not follow the party, its dishonesty and breach of trust.” The court has also questioned the presidential reference seeking its opinion on holding Senate elections though an open ballot and observed that being a political matter; the government should have approached the Parliament for making an amendment to the Constitution instead of moving the court.
A five-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed and comprising Justice Mushir Alam, Justice Umar Ata Bandial, Justice Yahya Afridi and Justice Ijazul Ahsan resumed the hearing on the presidential reference.
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has observed that elected representatives are answerable both to voters and party and they must follow the party line while voting through a secret ballot.It also.