TIMERGARA: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal provincial chief Maulana Gul Naseeb said on Thursday that the MMA lawmakers-elect would sit on opposition benches in the National Assembly and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly if the opposition’s agenda of boycott failed.

Addressing a meeting of his party office-bearers at Chakdara, he said that their members would play an active role in the assembly while sitting on opposition benches.

The MMA leader alleged that the general election was ‘rigged’ and popular leadership in the country was either sent to jail or harassed. He said that politicians were pushed to the wall through engineered ways.

“Our polling agents were not allowed to observe the vote counting,” he said, adding that Form-45 was not given to the MMA polling agents.

Gul Naseeb claims elections rigged at large scale

“We have already rejected the election results as these were rigged on a large scale,” Mr Naseeb said, adding that ‘technical rigging’ could not be observed by the media and political parties on time. He said that formation of a grand alliance against the government was their objective, but that did not mean they were going to take any unconstitutional step.

Expressing satisfaction over his election, he said that he polled over 32,000 votes against PPP’s Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and PTI’s Junaid Akbar in Malakand.

Meanwhile, MNA-elect from NA-7 and PTI district president Mohammad Bashir Khan on Thursday said that his party would make the previous lawmakers accountable regarding their development projects.

Bashir Khan defeated JI chief Sirajul Haq in his hometown constituency of NA-7.

Addressing party workers at his residence in Ghambir, he said that his party was reviewing all development schemes in the district and if irregularities were found then the previous lawmakers would not be spared. He said that he would try to remove any hurdles to construction of Jandol grid station.

BOARD RESULTS: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Malakand, announced on Thursday that it would declare results of its intermediate annual examination-2018 on Aug 6 (Monday). It said in a statement that the gazette book would be available on the same day.

Published in Dawn, August 3rd, 2018