KARACHI, Sept 28: The Peoples Party Parliamentarians on Saturday accused the administration of pulling down its election banners, especially those bearing party chairperson Ms Benazir Bhutto’s pictures, from various parts of the city.

Addressing a news conference at the Karachi Press Club, general secretary of the Sindh People’s Party, Rashid Rabbani and NA-250 candidate Dr Mirza Ikhtiar Baig, alleged that the police last night pulled down a hoarding from Schon Circle in Clifton, which carried Ms Bhutto’s picture along with the candidate.

Candidate Baig, Najmi Alam, Waqar Mehdi and Munawar Suhrawardi alleged that the authorities had removed the PPP hoardings, banners and posters, but similar displays of other contestants were not touched.

Ikhtiar Baig said that DPO Saddar and other police officials told him that they were under orders to remove such banners which carried Ms Bhutto’s picture.

He claimed that police personnel were involved in removing the hoarding from Schon Circle. He claimed that he had paid the required fee for using the facility, while remaining within the parameters of election laws.

Termed it a part of administration’s pre-poll rigging, he expressed doubt about the elections being transparent, free and fair. Rashid Rabbani said that despite provocations the PPP would not boycott the polls.