ISLAMABAD, Oct 10: Acting secretary-general of Pakistan People’s Party, Mian Raza Rabbani alleged on Thursday that gross irregularities in the elections have been committed and condemned the killing of three party workers in violence during polling in different parts of the country.

“Election day has been marred by gross irregularities and violence,” Rabbani said in a brief talk with newsmen at the party secretariat.

He said PPP central election cell had sent more than 60 to 70 complaints of various incidents as they occurred. These were in addition to the complaints sent by election cell at Karachi, Quetta, Lahore and Peshawar.

“The party condemns in the violence witnessed particularly in Sindh,” he said. This violence was perpetuated by the police officer particularly those transferred despite ban by the commission.

It was supplemented by the candidates of the king’s party, which the administration watched silently. Two workers of the PPP had been killed in Sindh and some of the constituencies where violence was witnessed in NA-211, NA-222, PS-12, NA-131, NA-237, NA-212 and NA-228.

The polling agents of the party were kidnapped and prevented from going to polling stations. In Punjab where violence also took place in certain constituencies one workers of the party was killed in the constituency of the deputy secretary-general Shah Mehmood Qureshi.

He said polling station were changed without notice in the night between Oct 9 and 10. Polling station were changed in the morning of Oct 10 and in Lahore NA-121 polling stations No-84, 94 and 95 were changed at 9.30 a.m

The election process due to this perception had lost its meanings for the people. “Had there been a neutral interim government, the turnout would have been large. Secondly, owing to the absence of prominent leaders such a Benazir Bhutto were deliberately kept out of the election process,” he added.