PPP complains about code of conduct violation in PS-52 by-election

ISLAMABAD: The PPP has complained to the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja of a breach of the code of conduct by Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in the by-election of PS-52 in Tharparkar, reported The News on Thursday.

In-charge PPP's Central Election Cell, Taj Haider, in a letter to the CEC, said that if the notice is not taken now, then there will be a tsunami of rigging by one of the candidate, Arbab Ghulam Rahim.

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“On the night of 10th March, Shah Mehmood, while being a member of the federal cabinet, addressed his spiritual followers in the constituency PS-52 through a telephonic call and urged them to vote for Arbab Ghulam Rahim," he stated.

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"This indulgence by the foreign minister is a clear and blatant violation of the code of conduct,” he said in a complaint letter to the CEC. 

“Arbab Ghulam Rahim, as the chief minister Sindh of military dictator Pervez Musharraf had been the chief architect and implementer of record rigging in Tharparkar,” the PPP leader alleged in the letter.

He stated that the PPP believed that the address by the foreign minister is only the beginning of a fresh rigging attempt in the constituency. “Looking forward to appropriate action under the law," he added.

Originally published in The News