LAHORE: Both the PML-N and PTI have started spending hefty amounts to buy votes fearing defeat in NA-120 by-poll, alleged PPP candidate Faisal Mir here on Thursday.

He alleged the PML-N was offering Rs5,000 against the PTI’s offer of Rs3,000 per vote in the constituency. He said if both these parties were sincere with the residents of NA-120, they should utilise the money being wasted on their campaigns for the provision of basic facilities to them.

Mir, talking at various corner meetings in the constituency, alleged the PML-N was spending millions of rupees on “fake surveys” to show its popularity in NA-120 whereas ground realities were different.

He said the PML-N was trying to fool the voters once again by chanting empty slogans, adding that no party could win the polls with the help of fake surveys.

Published in Dawn, September 15th, 2017