Summary
- Polling concluded on Sunday in the by-elections for two Punjab assembly seats, Gujranwala’s NA-77 and Sahiwal’s PP-203, with both constituencies witnessing election-related controversies and heightened security arrangements.
- Notices were issued to Punjab MPA Qudsia Batool, MNA Saira Afzal Tarar and Parliamentary Secretary for Information and Culture Shazia Rizwan over reports that they had visited polling stations in NA-77.
- For Sunday’s polling, authorities established 185 polling stations across PP-203 and deployed 1,370 election staff, including 574 women and 796 men.
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Polling concluded on Sunday in the by-elections for two Punjab assembly seats, Gujranwala’s NA-77 and Sahiwal’s PP-203, with both constituencies witnessing election-related controversies and heightened security arrangements.
Voting started at 8am and continued until 5pm. Voters who were inside polling stations when polling hours ended were allowed to cast their ballots.
The NA-77 seat became vacant after the death of five-time MNA Chaudhry Mehmood Bashir Virk on September 11 following a prolonged illness. His son, Rashid Basheer Virk, contested the by-election against 17 other candidates.
Major opposition parties, including the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Jamaat-i-Islami (JI), stayed away from the contest.
The polling process faced allegations of violations of the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) code of conduct. Notices were issued to Punjab MPA Qudsia Batool, MNA Saira Afzal Tarar and Parliamentary Secretary for Information and Culture Shazia Rizwan over reports that they had visited polling stations in NA-77.
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