The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has issued a wrong notification overturning a loser candidate in the list of the winner candidates.
This occurred in when ECP issued list of winning candidates of Punjab Assembly including ‘success’ PP-296 candidate Rajanpur. According to Form 47, independent candidate Muhammad Owais Darishek won by getting 42, 613 votes, however, ECP issued notification of the success of the independent candidate Ahmed Ali Dareshak.
The candidate whose success notification was issued got only 157 votes. PML-N candidate Mohammad Yusuf Darishak was second with 41,402 votes.
Must Read: ECP withdraws victory notification of NA-128 candidate
Earlier, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has withdrawn the notification of the victory of IPP candidate Aun Chaudhry from NA-128.
ECP DG Law informed the Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Aamir Farooq that ECP has withdrawn the victory notification of Aun Ch victory. The court directed Salman Akram Raja’s lawyer to approach the ECP as his application is pending before the ECP.
“ECP will decide after hearing Salman Akram Raja's pending application,” Law DG said. The court disposed of the application of Salman Akram Raja after the ECP DG Law statement.
“There was a mistake by the ECP that's why the notification has been withdrawn,” DG Law told the ECP.
