Imran Khan demands CEC’s immediate resignation after Punjab by-polls
PTI Chairman Imran Khan Monday demanded Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja’s immediate resignation following his party’s win in the Punjab by-elections on July 17.
Speaking to the public in a televised speech, the former prime minister said that his actions were backed by “malintent” and due to his “incompetence”, four million people were shown dead on voters’ lists.
“But apart from that, he wholeheartedly participated in the polling process to ensure that PML-N wins,” the PTI chairman said.
Khan added that the PTI had “lawful” eight cases, which the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), headed by Raja, rejected to hear. He said that the party then went to the courts to seek justice, where it was served the same.
“We do not trust this election commissioner,” he maintained.
Khan said that despite several cases of rigging during polls being brought before the CEC, he never found anyone guilty — and, as a result, malpractice continued as no one had feared accountability. Even the election commission tried all tactics to ensure we lose. But we won despite that as people came out to cast their votes like never before.”
The PTI chairman said that transparent elections are not possible under the current election commissioner.
