QUETTA, May 15: The Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) continued its protest against the alleged poll rigging and held a sit-in outside the office of the provincial election commission here on Wednesday.

A large number of BNP-M leaders, workers and supporters carrying placards and banners inscribed with the party’s demands paraded roads in the provincial capital and later gathered in front of the commission’s office.

They raised slogans against the ECP and the caretaker government.

Addressing the rally, BNP-M’s senior vice president Dr Jahanzaib Jamaldini, former senator Sana Baloch, Agha Hasan Baloch, Sajid Tareen, Jamila Baloch and other leaders alleged that results of various ‘winning’ candidates of the party had been changed and their victory converted into defeat through bogus and fake votes in favour of other parties.

They alleged that massive rigging had been committed in constituencies of Quetta, Khuzdar and Chagai where BNP-M candidates had won but the results were changed overnight. They accused the establishment and the forces opposed to the BNP-M of changing the election results.

They said their party had always stood against the atrocities and injustices and never compromised on the rights of Baloch people. “We will never bow before undemocratic forces which always steal our party’s mandate.”

The BNP-M leaders termed the change in election results a conspiracy to pit Baloch and Pakhtuns against each other.

They said the party had presented solid evidence of rigging in Quetta and other areas, but the ECP had not taken any notice. They demanded re-polling in these constituencies and warned that if the Election Commission failed to take notice of the rigging, the party would chalk out its future line of action.