Imran Khan mulls expanding review committee after backlash over ticket distribution
Subsequent to getting weighty analysis from inside the party and laborers’ dissent outside his Zaman Parks home for denying passes to heavyweight possibility for the impending decisions in Punjab, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Administrator Imran has chosen to incorporate the party’s VP Shah Mehmood Qureshi and General Secretary Asad Umar in the council entrusted with checking on the grumblings of those hopefuls who had passed up a major opportunity, sources told Geo News.
As per a rundown gave by the PTI on April 20, Senior PTI pioneers Fawad Chaudhry, Qureshi, Hammad Azhar, Shahbaz Gill and a few other prepared legislators were not given tickets by the party.
It ought to be noticed that the rundown was finished after Khan talked with the wannabe applicants face to face to maintain merit in granting party tickets.
The sources aware of the matter said that the interaction to audit the grumblings will start today and will go on till April 26.
The High Court had requested the Political race Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to hold general decisions in the region on May 14.
In a bid to placate miserable hopefuls, the PTI executive was wanting to remember the carefully prepared lawmakers for the survey board of trustees, the sources told Geo News.
The PTI shaped a four-part board on Thursday to eliminate issues with the circulation of tickets.
The board included Musaddiq Abbasi, Ijaz Chaudhary, Rai Hassan Nawaz, and Aoon Abbas.
The party finished a rundown of 297 competitors recently for the decisions.
As per the rundown of applicants distributed on the PTI’s site, Raja Basharat, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, Usmar Dar, Dr Yasmin Rashid, Hashim Dogar, Zain Qureshi and Usman Buzdar have been granted party tickets.
The PTI hosts become the main major get-together to have officially begun the electing system. In any case, a few senior party pioneers were rejected from challenging the surveys in Punjab which likewise rankled the laborers and allies.
The expectations of Qureshi and Senior VP Fawad Chaudhry — in the event that there were any — to become Punjab boss clergyman were likewise run after they were denied the common gathering tickets by the party boss.
Talking on a confidential news channel recently, Fawad communicated his “disappointment” over the refusal of the ticket.
In light of an inquiry, on the off chance that he would be PTI’s contender for CM, he expressed it was the choice that must be chosen at the level of the party director.
Fawad likewise prompted Khan not to report the name of the central pastor’s applicant freely before surveys, regardless of whether it was Sardar Usman Buzdar or any other person.
Who has been granted tickets?
Alongside different areas of Punjab, the PTI hosts granted get-together passes to its competitors from Lahore — additionally called Pakistan Muslim Association Nawaz’s (PML-N) fortification.
The significant shock this time is that previous common priest Dr Murad Raas, who is likewise a direct relation of Hamza Shehbaz, has not been granted a ticket for the commonplace gathering seat.
He could be the party’s decision for the Public Gathering races while two previous ticket-holders of NA seats, including Dr Yasmin Rashid and Ghulam Mohiud Commotion Diwan, have been handled as common get together applicants.
Dr Yasmin Rashid had challenged the 2013, 2017 by-surveys, and 2018 general races on the NA seat, two times against the Sharif relatives straightforwardly, and, surprisingly, packed away in excess of 100,000 votes once yet couldn’t win.
She got chosen for the Punjab Gathering seats saved for ladies and furthermore filled in as Punjab’s wellbeing priest. She has been granted a ticket from PP-173.
Diwan Ghulam Mohiud Clamor, a previous PTI ticket-holder from NA-124, who lost to PML-N’s Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in 2018 by-surveys, has been handled from PP-147, the seat from where Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman has been sequentially winning beginning around 2002 while it was PP-141.
Trailblazer individual from PTI Yasir Gilani has been granted a ticket from PP-144, while Asif Bhinder, a relative of the late Arif Bhinder, previous backer general, has been granted a ticket from PP-145. Abdul Kareem Khan has been granted a ticket from PP-148, a piece of Shalamar Town.
Mian Aslam Iqbal (PP-170), Mian Mehmoodur Rasheed (PP-168), Sarfaraz Khokhar (PP-166), and Malik Nadeem Bara (PP-167) are among the individuals who won the keep going general decisions on a PTI ticket.
Plus, Mian Akram Usman, who won the keep going by-political decision hung on the seat emptied by Abdul Aleem Khan, has likewise been granted a ticket from PP-169.
Khalid Gujjar has been granted a ticket from PP-165, though three-time MPA Chaudhry Muhammad Mansha Sindhu has been handled from PP-163.
Strangely, Shabbir Gujjar and Zaheer Abbas Khokhar, both previous PTI ticket-holders and victors of July 2022, have not been granted a ticket.
Counselor Hammad Azhar has likewise not been granted a ticket, however he is the party’s logical decision for the Public Gathering seat he won in 2018.
As per the rundown gave by the PTI, the competitors who have been granted party tickets incorporate Azam Khan Niazi (PP-159), Zubair Niazi (PP-172), Mehr Wajid Azeem (PP-171), Haider Majeed (PP-160), Ammar Bashir Gujjar (PP-161), Ahmar Bhatti (PP-164), and Khalid Gujjer (PP-165).
