ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founding chairman Imran Khan Monday urged his party workers and people at large not to let anyone rob them of their basic right to vote on February 8, 2024 in any circumstances.
In a special message through the party’s core committee, he emphasised that vote was their basic constitutional, legal and democratic right and they should not allow it to be snatched.
The incarcerated PTI ‘chairman-for-life’ called upon people that they should prepare themselves well for the upcoming elections in order to make sure polling of their votes in a safe manner.
He made it clear that the ‘deferment of the elections or any attack on transparency’ was not in the interest of the country and the party’s workers and people should plan together to prevent and foil any such attacks.
The PTI founding chairman categorically said that those who were hell bent on pushing Pakistan into the darkness of destruction and lawlessness could not defeat the PTI and people standing behind it in the elections come what may.
In its meeting, the core committee reiterated its demand that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) should immediately issue electoral symbol ‘bat’ to the PTI and pleaded that after conducting free, fair and transparent intra party elections, the electoral watchdog had no constitutional and legal justification to deprive the country’s most popular and biggest political force of its electoral symbol.
The committee demanded the commission instantly issue the political identity of millions of voters i.e. the election symbol of bat instead of putting a question mark on polls transparency by stopping the symbol of bat.
The PTI core committee expressed happiness and satisfaction over the ‘successful organisation’ of the country’s first and historic ‘virtual jalsa’.
The participants in the meeting highly appreciated the organisers of the virtual meeting, especially the official social media team and the officials and workers of the overseas chapters. They also thanked the public for participating in the virtual jalsa in millions from all across the world.
The forum vehemently denounced the state’s attempts of constant disruption of the internet and social media platforms to discourage the public participation in the first-ever virtual public gathering in the history of the country. It was said that organising a record-setting virtual public jalsa even in the absence of the PTI founding chairman was a proof of the PTI’s rising popularity and its full preparations for the upcoming general election.
They made it clear that with massive participation in the virtual public meeting, the public drew the outline of the possible results of the elections, scheduled for February 8, 2024.
The forum announced that the PTI officially launched its election campaign through its historic virtual meeting and vowed that the party would field candidates at every National and provincial seats across the country.
The PTI core committee resolved that instead of being deterred and intimidated through oppression, suppression and fascism, they would enter into the electoral arena well-prepared. They vowed that the PTI would secure a thumping victory in elections with the grace of Allah Almighty and the support of the countrymen by inflicting a crushing defeat on its political rivals.
The forum urged the nation that in view of the sanctity, security and importance of their vote, they should be fully alert and ready on February 8 because they would have to put the history and politics of the country on a new level.
The core committee welcomed the joining of PTI by a prominent jurist, senior politician and former governor of Punjab Sardar Latif Khosa. It appreciated his decision and reiterated they together would strive to put Pakistan on the path to Constitution and democracy.
