PESHAWAR, May 15: Pakistan People’s Party has rejected the election results by describing the electoral exercise totally rigged and manipulated, and decided to begin demonstrations against it across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

It also decided to move the election tribunal against the election results.

According to insiders, most of PPP leaders felt extremely disappointed over defeat in the May 11 elections but the party workers at grassroots level are satisfied because they had always raised voice against poor performance of party ministers and lawmakers during the last five years.

“Democracy is the best revenge. These are the words of our leader Benazir Bhutto and that they were repeated by our young leader, Bilawal Bhutto, at a public meeting. Now, these words are materialised by PPP workers in the elections,” PPP provincial vice president Azam Afridi told Dawn.

He said the election was a result of the harsh behaviour of former PPP ministers, MPAs and MNAs, who never paid attention to workers, who used their democratic right and took the revenge from the candidates.

Mr Afridi said nobody should shy away from accepting responsibility of failure as all PPP lawmakers, especially ministers, had neglected workers and therefore, the election results were not unexpected.

However, another leader said with resignation of PPP provincial president Anwar Saifullah Khan, some key leaders had begun efforts to win support of senior activists and former members of national and provincial assemblies to grab the slot.