PTI won seats in Punjab, KP through rigging: JUIF

ISLAMABAD: The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUIF) on Tuesday alleged that PTI-backed independent candidates won majority of seats in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) through managed rigging while JUIF was deprived of true representation in National and provincial assemblies.

The JUIF’s central working committee which met here with party’s head Maulana Fazlur Rehman discussed outcome of elections results against JUIF candidates and categorically rejected the same and would announce future action plan today (Wednesday).

“The party leadership will decide tomorrow whether to accept elections results or demand new elections,” the JUIF spokesman Aslam Ghori said while talking to newsmen during the meeting on Tuesday. The JUIF leader said, “We are also discussing whether it were elections or anything else.” “The PTI candidates benefited from elections results and results were managed for them in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab,” the JUIF leader said.

He claimed that JUIF could alone form government in Balochistan as according to Form 45, more than 20 candidates won provincial assembly seats while they are also being deprived of victory on three more National Assembly seats from there.

“We have serious concerns about results or either results were managed or announcement of results has been delayed,” he said, adding that neither they would bow to any pressure or make any compromise. He said that it were Returning Officers and people above them who managed results.

Asked whether his party would join coalition government in the center, the JUIF spokesman said it was premature to say about it and was also not certain whether the upcoming government would be able to complete its tenure. He said that whatever decisions to be taken by the party leadership would be in better national interests and interests of democratic system.