ECP reserves verdict on removal of Imran Khan as PTI chairmanship case,
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founding leader Akbar S. Babar on Tuesday challenged the intra-party elections, citing violations of the Election Act, 2017.
He filed a plea contending that the whole process was a deception and undertaken by depriving members of their voting rights.
Babar also submitted evidence, including video footage, to the Election Commission, stating that key election details were not disclosed even when demanded. He further said the party failed to follow legal requirements. He urged the Election Commission to declare the intra-party elections null and void, and order the polling afresh with a clear direction to enforce election rules. These instructions should be issued to all major political parties, he added.
Earlier, the ECP had on Nov 23 ordered the PTI to conduct elections within 20 days.
Earlier, The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) reserved a verdict in the case of the removal of the former chairman of PTI from the party leadership on Tuesday. A five-member bench headed by Chief Election Commissioner Sikander Sultan Raja heard and reserved a verdict regarding the disqualification of the former Chairman of PTI.
Petitioner Khalid Mehmood argued no one recognized PTI’s intra-party elections including PTI founder member Akbar S Babar. He further argued that ECP wrote in the order PTI chairman is a convicted person and could not hold any position in the party. Chief Election Commissioner Sultan Sikandar Raja said that the founder chairman of PTI did not contest the election, we cannot say anything about it.
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