ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) has decided to hold fresh Intra-party elections in the first week of next month (March).
The announcement in this regard was made by party leadership that the fresh intra-party elections would be hold on March 3 (Sunday).
After a long battle and marathon hearings in the run-up to the February 8 general elections, the PTI was stripped of its symbol last month when the Supreme Court upheld the Election Commission of Pakistan’s decision to declare the party’s internal polls as “unconstitutional”.
In its detailed verdict, the apex court had ruled that a political party must never be deprived of its election symbol for some minor violation, but forsaking intra-party elections was a major violation of law and the Constitution.
The verdict forced hundreds of party members to contest the elections as independent candidates with different electoral symbols and deprived the PTI of its right to reserved seats.
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