LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has urged upon the party’s ticket-holders to build a momentum for the elections by mobilising voters in their respective constituencies, while a schedule for his public meetings in the strongholds of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz in Punjab is also being finalised.

In a meeting with a group of ticket-holders at his Lahore residence on Sunday, Mr Khan urged them to hold more and more rallies and public meetings as well as going door-to-door in their election campaign. He asked them to win over the hearts of the disgruntled activists by redressing their complaints and try to reach as many voters as possible.

The directive was issued as PTI is scheduling the party chairman’s public meetings in the towns along G.T. Road, which is considered as citadels of the rival PML-N and the first such meeting in this regard will be held in Muridke, on Wed­nesday. One public meeting will be held in Gakhar Mandi and Lalamusa each on Thursday.

The public meetings would be followed by meetings in Gujar Khan and Attock. Mr Khan will address these meetings, though a formal schedule would be announced only after his approval, disclosed a person who attended the meeting.

The chairman was quoted as thanking the people for showing street power on Saturday to express solidarity with the Supreme Court on the Punjab polls.

He stressed that the people took to the streets for upholding the Constitution and not for any person. He said the Constitution called for polls within 90 days of the dissolution of an assembly but the government was defying the constitutional provision as well as the apex court verdict on the issue.

Published in Dawn, May 8th, 2023