LAHORE, July 20: Governor Sardar Latif Khosa has said the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf’s participation in the Multan by-poll has exposed the claim of its chairman Imran Khan that it will not be part of it.

“Imran Khan had claimed that his party would not take part in the by-election but it did so in Multan by supporting independent candidate (Shaukat Bosan),” the governor said while talking to reporters here on Friday.

He said the victory of Abdul Qadir Gilani had made it clear that the masses trusted the PPP-led government. He said the PML-N, the PTI and the Jamaat-i-Islami together could not defeat the PPP candidate, exposing their popularity graph.

The governor regretted the Election Commission of Pakistan was not impartial in the by-poll. He said in the past the PPP won most of the seats in by-polls and it would emerge the most successful party in the next general election as well.

PML-Q central information secretary Senator Kamil Ali Agha said the PPP’s victory in Multan should be enough to open the eyes of its opponents who were not ready to accept the ground realities.

Mr Aga asked the Sharifs to better concentrate in Punjab instead of exploring new political alliances in Sindh and KPK.

He said in the next election the politics of ‘arrogance and propaganda’ of such forces would face defeat.