As the Punjab Assembly’s elected candidates are set to take the oath in its maiden session today, the PTI plans to protest the alleged snatching of provincial assembly seats through massive rigging.

In a late-night development on Thursday, the PTI leadership decided that all party-backed winning candidates led by the party’s nominee for Punjab chief ministership, Mian Aslam Iqbal, will attend the Punjab Assembly’s maiden session.

Hammad Azhar, PTI’s general secretary for central Punjab, announced on X (formerly Twitter) that all the PTI-backed candidates who were defeated through “rigging” in the results calculations in Form 47s would stage a protest demonstration in front of the Punjab Assembly. Party workers and supporters would also join the protest demonstration.

Azhar said the “PDM gang” would never do anything good for the people as they were now answerable to those candidates whom people had given heavy mandate. “The masses’ situation will improve when people will be allowed to choose their leaders,” he said.

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