ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan said on Monday that the PTI would stage a rally outside the building of the Election Commission of Pakistan on Tuesday.

Addressing the participants of his party’s sit-in at D-Chowk, he said the current assembly, the prime minister and the government were not genuine because last year’s elections were massively rigged.

“We would have never given a call for protest had we succeeded in getting justice against poll rigging,” Mr Khan said.

He said Nov 30 would be a decisive day for the PTI movement when people from across the country would converge on Islamabad to take part in the sit-in.

The PTI chief challenged Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to move the Supreme Court if his allegations against him regarding declaration of assets were not true.

“Mian Sahib, you are lying because you did not declare your ‘actual assets’ before the ECP. You can move the court against me if you believe that my allegations about your assets are wrong,” he said.

Mr Khan advised his supporters in a lighter vein to raise the slogan of ‘Go Nawaz Go’ in order to sleep well because it would reduce their blood pressure and tension.

He claimed that the PTI was the only party which expressed concern about over-billing of Rs70 billion in electricity bills.

He claimed that the government had been earning Rs10bn annually by charging Rs35 per month as TV licence fee through electricity bills.

“I am waiting for the day when [former chief justice] Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary will go to court against me,” the PTI chairman said.

He criticised Maulana Fazlur Rehman for using abusive language against women participating in the sit-in and rallies of the PTI. “I tell you, Maulana Sahib, that the nation will never forgive you.”

Published in Dawn, October 28th, 2014