SWABI, Jan 22: Local leaders of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) have started mass contact campaign here to ensure victory of their respective candidates in the next general elections.

They claim that this time the situation is favourable for their victory, as people of Swabi are fed up with the ruling Awami National Party owing to its bad governance in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

In their separate meetings, leaders of the two parties vowed to work hard for emerging victorious in the election from the district, which has been dominated by the ANP since inception of the country.

The PML-N district leaders said that they had asked the party’s office-bearers in Swabi to launch an aggressive campaign to educate people on the party policy and future programme.

In a meeting, chaired by PML-N district president Iftikhar Ahmad Khan on Saturday, the party activists said that they were conducting the mass contact campaign keeping in view the coming general elections.

Sources said that the meeting discussed options to strengthen the party at the district level by luring workers and leaders of other parties into the PML-N’s fold.

Both the PML-N’s district president and general secretary, Dildar Khan, stressed that unity in the party would guarantee their win in the general election on Swabi district seats.

JUI-F leader Maulana Fazal Ali said that the party position had been strengthened by the party workers because they were in constant touch with the people. He said that the party candidates from Swabi district had already applied for the tickets of two National Assembly and six provincial assembly seats.

He said that the tickets would be awarded by the party to the deserving candidates soon.

He claimed that their Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal government in the province had completed record development projects in the district and challenged other political parties to prove this wrong.