PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has decided to conduct investigation into the defeat of the party in first phase of the local bodies elections held in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
According to a private TV channel, party will prepare a charge sheet against party leaders for supporting candidates of opponent parties.
A report on local government elections in Peshawar, Mardan, Swabi, Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan and other districts of province held December 19, has been compiled which was
presented to Prime Minister Imran Khan by Chief Minister Mahmood Khan.
According to the report, it has been decide to prepare a charge sheet against party leaders for supporting the candidates of opponent parties after which show cause notices will be issued to PTI’s members of the parliament.
It has also been decided to take action against PTI MPAs and MNAs for going against the party policy.
However, the party can’t take any action against its MNAs and MPAs other than issuing show cause notices to them.
Meanwhile according to another report nine parliamentarians have been declared responsible in Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) defeat in the first phase of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Local Government (LG) polls.
After the election defeat in PTI’s stronghold Peshawar, an investigation report was presented to Prime Minister Imran Khan in which nine lawmakers including the Governor and Speaker of the National Assembly were declared responsible for poor performance.
Moreover, four provincial ministers among 11 lawmakers from the KP Assembly were also held responsible for PTI’s defeat.
The investigation report blamed inflation, wrong distribution of party tickets among candidates and internal conflicts of local leaders for impacting the election results that had gone go against the ruling political party.
Media reports said, that KP Chief Minister Mahmood Khan called on PM Imran Khan in Islamabad and presented the investigation report to the premier, detailing the poor performance of the leadership in the recent LG polls in 17 districts.
The report covered all areas of weakness of the political party to expose the reason of PTI’s electoral loss in KP. Those lawmakers and senior leaders have been named in the report who had not supported the political party.
