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09-21-2016, 05:40 AM
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidate Rai Murtaza Iqbal, who was defeated in Monday’s by-election to NA-162 Chichawatni, Sahiwal, got over 25,000 votes less than the ballots its **minee had secured in the 2013 general elections.
This time the PTI representative clinched 63,211 votes while his uncle, Rai Hassan Nawaz sponsored by it in 2013, had bagged 88,974 ballots and had emerged as the winner. Thus, there was a drop of 25,763 votes in just three years. This exhibited the declining vote-bank of the PTI due to its policies.
Hassan Nawaz had won the seat with a lead of 13,218 votes while his nephew was routed with a margin of 13,369 ballots. The three generations of powerful Rais had been consecutively successful in all elections in Chichawatni because of their tremendous personal influence. In the last local polls, they were able to get most of the union councils of Chichawatni Tehsil, the only area in Punjab where the PTI had shown an impressive performance.
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) cardholder, Tufail Jutt, who won the by-poll, bagged 76,580 votes. In 2013, it had **t fielded any candidate for this constituency.
Haji Ayub, who had contested the election as an independent, was the runner-up with 75,756 ballots. This time, he supported the PML-N after working out an arrangement with it, according to which he may get the slot of the chairman of the Sahiwal district council. The PML-N winner **w got 724 votes more than those of Haji Ayub.
The voter tur**ut was comparatively less than that of 2013 as per the time-tested tradition and practice seen in by-elections. Apparently, the PTI was the prime victim of low voter participation while the PML-N almost secured the same number of votes that an independent had clinched three years back.
The immense personal sway of Rais in Chichawatni mainly helped Murtaza Iqbal in putting up a good fight and clinching an impressive vote tally. Although they are associated with the PTI that they joined in 2013 before the general elections, it did **t contribute much to their electoral gains.
A Jhelum seat that the PML-N contestant recently won was the one where its candidate was successful in 2013. In the case of Sahiwal seat, it was won by the PTI leader that the PML-N has **w snatched.
If the consistent victory of the PML-N and defeat of the PTI in successive by-elections is any guide, it becomes clear that the former continues to maintain its supremacy over its archrival especially in Punjab despite the incumbency factor while the latter is **t adding anything to its prospects and is rather faced with declining support although it has been relentlessly engaged in the anti-government campaign for the last three years.
The PTI was humbled in Chichawatni just a few days before its planned Raiwind March on September 30. Its unusual hullabaloo apart, the result of the by-poll has served as a demoralizing development for it.
However, the PTI’s defeat in three by-elections in a row from Chichawatni, Jhelum and Vehari (NA-162, NA-63 and PP-232 Burewala, Vehari respectively) has **t in any way dampened Imran Khan’s plan of unending protest. As he continuously fails to dent the PML-N on the force of the electoral power, he intensifies his agitation.
However, these and previous by-polls in Punjab have reinforced the fact that the electoral fight is concentrated between the PML-N and PTI while the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) stays on the sidelines, still to come out of the humiliating rout it faced in the 2013 polls.
Transparency of the by-election was so pro**unced, unmistakable and above board that even the PTI, which is k**wn for raising hue and cry over every electoral exercise, openly admitted that the by-poll was unprecedentedly fair, free and impartial. It articulated this view only because of deployment of army troops. Had this job been left to police, it would have certainly questioned the by-election in its usual style.
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This time the PTI representative clinched 63,211 votes while his uncle, Rai Hassan Nawaz sponsored by it in 2013, had bagged 88,974 ballots and had emerged as the winner. Thus, there was a drop of 25,763 votes in just three years. This exhibited the declining vote-bank of the PTI due to its policies.
Hassan Nawaz had won the seat with a lead of 13,218 votes while his nephew was routed with a margin of 13,369 ballots. The three generations of powerful Rais had been consecutively successful in all elections in Chichawatni because of their tremendous personal influence. In the last local polls, they were able to get most of the union councils of Chichawatni Tehsil, the only area in Punjab where the PTI had shown an impressive performance.
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) cardholder, Tufail Jutt, who won the by-poll, bagged 76,580 votes. In 2013, it had **t fielded any candidate for this constituency.
Haji Ayub, who had contested the election as an independent, was the runner-up with 75,756 ballots. This time, he supported the PML-N after working out an arrangement with it, according to which he may get the slot of the chairman of the Sahiwal district council. The PML-N winner **w got 724 votes more than those of Haji Ayub.
The voter tur**ut was comparatively less than that of 2013 as per the time-tested tradition and practice seen in by-elections. Apparently, the PTI was the prime victim of low voter participation while the PML-N almost secured the same number of votes that an independent had clinched three years back.
The immense personal sway of Rais in Chichawatni mainly helped Murtaza Iqbal in putting up a good fight and clinching an impressive vote tally. Although they are associated with the PTI that they joined in 2013 before the general elections, it did **t contribute much to their electoral gains.
A Jhelum seat that the PML-N contestant recently won was the one where its candidate was successful in 2013. In the case of Sahiwal seat, it was won by the PTI leader that the PML-N has **w snatched.
If the consistent victory of the PML-N and defeat of the PTI in successive by-elections is any guide, it becomes clear that the former continues to maintain its supremacy over its archrival especially in Punjab despite the incumbency factor while the latter is **t adding anything to its prospects and is rather faced with declining support although it has been relentlessly engaged in the anti-government campaign for the last three years.
The PTI was humbled in Chichawatni just a few days before its planned Raiwind March on September 30. Its unusual hullabaloo apart, the result of the by-poll has served as a demoralizing development for it.
However, the PTI’s defeat in three by-elections in a row from Chichawatni, Jhelum and Vehari (NA-162, NA-63 and PP-232 Burewala, Vehari respectively) has **t in any way dampened Imran Khan’s plan of unending protest. As he continuously fails to dent the PML-N on the force of the electoral power, he intensifies his agitation.
However, these and previous by-polls in Punjab have reinforced the fact that the electoral fight is concentrated between the PML-N and PTI while the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) stays on the sidelines, still to come out of the humiliating rout it faced in the 2013 polls.
Transparency of the by-election was so pro**unced, unmistakable and above board that even the PTI, which is k**wn for raising hue and cry over every electoral exercise, openly admitted that the by-poll was unprecedentedly fair, free and impartial. It articulated this view only because of deployment of army troops. Had this job been left to police, it would have certainly questioned the by-election in its usual style.
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