The anomalies by the Election Commission of Pakistan in the allotment of poll symbols are kept coming as the Pakistan Peoples Party has again rued the ECP wrong allotment of the poll symbol to its candidate for NA-122 in Lahore. PPP central election cell in-charge Senator Taj Haider wrote a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner on Monday requesting him to allot PPP ticket holder Chaudhry Atiq Rafiq who is vying for NA 122 constituency from Lahore the ‘arrow’ symbol of the party. According to the PPP, its ticket holder has wrongly been shown as an independent candidate and is allotted a different symbol by the Election Commission in its lists of candidates. The party requested the CEC to relay instructions to the returning officer in this regard. Yesterday, Senator Taj Haider also wrote a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner complaining that the PPP ticket holder Fayyaz Bhatti from PP 163 Lahore has been allotted the ‘kettle’ symbol instead of ‘arrow’. Other PPP candidates vying for PP 119 and NA 59 constituencies have been allotted the wrong symbols, the party senator pointed out. Haider lamented that the PPP was being deprived of its election symbol in Punjab which could put a big question mark on the transparency of the elections.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)