QUETTA, Aug 3: People’s Party Parliamentarian’s Provincial President Nawabzada Lashkari Khan Raisani has alleged that Chief Minister Jam Mohammad Yousuf and provincial ministers are interfering in the process of local body selections. Talking at a press conference in Sarawan House here on Wednesday, he called on the chief election commissioner to take notice of ‘illegal delimitation of union councils (UCs) after the announcement of the election schedule’.

He claimed that in Nasirabad and Jaffarabad districts, union councils had been illegally delimitated to benefit government-backed candidates. The PPP leader alleged that two voter registration lists had been prepared with some voters’ names included in one list but not found in the other.

The PPP would take part in the elections despite the illegal acts of the government, Mr Raisani said and added that the party had made a few seat adjustments with other political parties in different parts of the province.

Answering a question, he said that the PPP would not compromise on the revival of the 1973 Constitution, supremacy of parliament, democratic rule and respect for fundamental rights of people.