As the results of the ongoing local body elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa continue to pour in, the Opposition parties have lead in the mayoral polls as they have bagged three out of four seats, while the ruling PTI is in danger of losing the fourth one as well.
Awami National Party's (ANP) Himayatullah has been elected as the mayor in Mardan, JUI-F's candidates also scored in Kohat and Bannu, according to unofficial results.
In Peshawar, JUI-F's candidate bagged as many as 62,388 votes and is nearing a win as he holds a margin of over 10,000 votes over PTI's Muhammad Rizwan Bangash, who is the runner-up and has amassed 50,659 votes, according to unofficial results.
There are five city councils in the province, however, the elections are taking place only on four as the polls in Dera Ismail Khan were postponed after ANP's candidate for mayor, Umar Khittab Sherani, was shot dead.
In the 64 tehsil council unofficial results obtained so far, the JUI-F has emerged victorious in 16 tehsil council seats while the PTI has won in 14.
Independent candidates have won 10, ANP six, PML-N three, Jamaat-e-Islami two, and Tehreek-e-Istiqlal in the tehsil council elections.
‘Imran Khan thinks for people’
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain Monday said Prime Minister Imran Khan fulfilled the promise of a strong local government system by elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
In a statement on Twitter, he said Imran Khan was the only leader who put his political interests behind and thought for the country and the people. The minister said that KPK LG elections were important in two respects.
He said that for the first time, powers were being transferred directly to the elected representatives at the tehsil level and for the first time the government held fair and transparent elections.
He said otherwise it was easy to have a dictator in the form of a chief minister and run the affairs which was the tradition of PPP and PML-N.
Taking a jibe on the PPP, he said that the people of Sindh are still suffering from this attitude.
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