Election Commission has failed miserably in performing its duties, Fawad said.
ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Fawad Chaudhry has announced that he will boycott elections as he does not want to put his workers through any more problems.
In a letter written from prison on Monday, Chaudhry said there was no point in contesting elections if the results have ‘already been decided’.
The former federal minister stated: “Our nomination papers were rejected without justification, my brother’s papers were approved, however he was made my co-accused in a corruption case by National Accountability Bureau (NAB)”.
In the letter, the former federal minister added that the Election Commission has failed miserably in performing its duties, and in these circumstances, my group announce a complete boycott of the elections.
He also wrote that he was prepared to brave any dangers but did not want to put his supporters through any more trouble.
Fawad Chaudhry also narrated the process of trying to contest the elections from jail, saying his nomination papers had been rejected on the basis of an undeclared plot even though no housing society existed in Jhelum.
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He said that the papers were later rejected for not declaring an Easy Paisa account.
He also said that his brother was arrested and later implicated in a NAB case after his nomination papers were accepted.
Chaudhry wrote that any government that would be formed as a result of such elections would have no moral or legal authority whatsoever.
