Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Thursday decided to submit the intra-party polls results to Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). As per details, the intra-party election results of General Secretary, Chairman, provincial party presidents and others will be submitted by a PTI leader.. Earlier, Akbar S Babar, founding member of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), once again challenged the intra-party election in ECP. PTI founding member Akbar S Babar, who later developed differences with its leadership, has filed a plea in Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) against party’s recently held ‘fraud’ intra-party election. Later talking to the media, Babar requested that the results of the PTI’s intra-party elections should be declared null and void. Babar said only 940 people voted in the election which is only 0.11 of the party’s strength.

On March 3, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) announced results of intra-party elections. According to the results, Barrister Gohar was elected PTI chairman unopposed, Omar Ayub Khan, secretary-general, unopposed, incarcerated, Yasmin Rashid, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Punjab president, unopposed and Ali Amin Gandapur as PTI KP chapter president unopposed. It is pertinent to mention here that PTI decided to hold intra-party polls after the Supreme Court decision, upholding the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) December 22, 2023, verdict that stripped Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) of its electoral symbol ‘bat’ symbol in a decision on founding member Akbar S Babar’s petition challenging the intra-party elections to be in line with the rules.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)