PML-N spokesperson for Punjab Uzma Bukhari has said that her party is in a position to form a government without needing a coalition.

“God willing, under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif, the path towards progress and development in Punjab will restart,” she said, adding that no other party in Punjab could match the PML-N’s victory.

She said it was “unjustified” for PTI-backed candidate Advocate Salman Akram Raja to have petitioned in the Lahore High Court against Awn Chaudhry of the Istehkam-i-Pakistan Party. She added that such matters should be taken to election tribunals instead.

Bukhari claimed that members of the PTI circulated fake messages of their victory on WhatsApp, as well as to the media, and later “cried about rigging because they had no other option”.

“PML-N is a responsible party, we don’t lie, we don’t believe propaganda,” she added.