Abdul Qadir Gilani wins his father’s vacated NA seat

Multan: (Thursday, July 19, 2012) Abdul Qadir Gilani, son of former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who was contesting on his father’s seat after he was disqualified by the court, has won the by-election on NA 151.

As per the unofficial results, Gilani emerged after a close race narrowly defeating the independent candidate Shaukat Hayat Bosan. For making it to the National Assembly, he obtained 64,628 votes.

According to the election commission of Pakistan (ECP), 245 polling stations were set up across the constituency out of which 64 were declared sensitive while in order to ensure the people’s participation in the election, a public’s
holiday was also declared in the backdrop of the by-elections.

During the polling hours, the observers witnessed an open violation to the code of conduct set by the election commission of Pakistan.

For the first time in the history of the country, the ECP itself decided to provide transport to voters in the by-election for NA 151 in the light of June 8^th decision of the Supreme Court.

The ECP had directed the District election commission Multan to provide transport to the voters during the by-election, however, candidates violated the ECP’s orders and provided transport to voters to bring them to polling stations.

Moreover, the candidates also set up camps near the polling stations which was also a clear violation of the code of conduct.

Polling was also halted after a fight broke out between two groups of women at polling station number 231.

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Posted by Fayyaz Yaseen on Jul 20 2012. Filed under Pakistan, Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry