DERA GHAZI KHAN, Jan 2: Electioneering for a by-election of PP-250 ended on Thursday night in Rujhan with a rally held by Punjab ministers in the favour of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate Atif Mazari.

The ministers only ended up repeating mega projects which had already been announced by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani when he had visited the area to condole the death of Shaukat Mazari whose sad demise created vacancy in PP-250.

The election will be held on Saturday (today) in which 150,462 voters will cast their votes. Fifteen polling stations have been declared sensitive.

Two other independent candidates – Zahid Mazari, the son of former prime minister Sardar Balakh Sher Mazari, and Ali Hussain Mazari, the son of the late Shaukat Mazari – are also in the run.

Zahid Mazari kept on complaining in his election campaign about the hurdles created by the district administration in his electioneering. His father, the senior Mir, is backing the PML-N candidate.

The constituency was visited by Senior Adviser to Chief Minister Zulfikar Khosa besides three provincial ministers -- Ahmed Ali Olakh, Nadeem Kamran and Chaudhry Abdul Ghafoor -- who addressed a public rally in Rujhan in favour of the PML-N candidate.

The government used public resources against the election rules. The district administration allegedly played vital role in the electioneering of the governmental party candidate.

Mr Khosa announced provision of gas to Rujhan, provision of houses for the poor, allocation of quota for the residents of Rujhan in educational institutes and the construction of a bridge over the Indus River to connect Rahim Yar Khan district and Rajanpur.