SIALKOT, Aug 22: The local leadership of PPP and PML-N has alleged that the law-enforcement agencies are harassing their UC nazims and independent winners in the district to join the ruling PML.

This was said by PPP district president Malik Naseer Akhtar Awan while talking to the press here on Monday.

He urged the chief election commissioner to take a serious notice in this regard.

Reports said as many as 20 UC nazims of PML-N, 14 of PPP and 10 independents were elected during the Aug 18 polls in the district. The ruling PML bagged 80 nazim seats out of a total of 124 urban and rural union councils.

Repolling: The Election Commission has changed the re-polling schedule in the district’s ten rural union councils.

Now the re-polling would be held on Aug 28 instead of Aug 25, due to unavoidable circumstances, said a handout.

Earlier, District Returning Officer Chaudhry Muhammad Aslam had ordered the re-polling following ‘large-scale rigging’ complaints made by opposition parties on Aug 18.

The re-polling will be held in Sialkot tehsil’s two and Pasrur tehsil’s eight rural union councils.

The DRO has also directed the law-enforcing agencies to take steps for holding free and fair polling in the ten UCs.