QUETTA, Oct 13: The Balochistan National Party (Mengal) on Sunday alleged the government to have rigged the Oct 10 election to keep away the nationalist forces from the parliament.

The secretary-general of the BNP(M), Habib Jalib Baloch, stated this while speaking at a press conference.

He said that the party had expressed apprehensions regarding the pre-poll rigging and alleged that on the polling day all the government resources were utilized to ensure the success of the king’s party.

Mr Jalib said that the returning officers allowed many of those aspirants to contest polls who were involved in heinous crimes and their cases were under trial with various courts.

He alleged that the candidates of the king’s party also violated the directives of the Election Commission by spending millions of rupees on the election campaign and crossed the expenditure limits fixed by the EC.

The BNP secretary claimed that the Nazimeen and government functionaries had influenced the voters in favour of the candidates of the king’s party by distributing wheat and flour in various villages of Chaghai district.

He alleged that thousands of the voters were unable to cast votes because either their polling stations were made in other areas or were not enrolled in the electoral list.

Mr Jalib said that the BNP polling agents were neither allowed to sit in the polling stations nor were provided with the results in written by the returning officers.