Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has announced a protest across Sindh on April 25 for same-day elections in the country, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Sunday.
PPP Sindh President Nisar Khuhro has said that the PPP will stage protests in all the district headquarters of Sindh on Tuesday, April 25, for Sindh does not accept the decision of separate elections [in provinces].
Nisar Khuhro has said that according to Article 69 of the Election Act, election to the national and provincial assemblies should be held on the same day across the country, for separate elections will be tantamount to dividing the country into two parts.
“The separate elections in two provinces are planned to influence the election results of the national and two provincial assemblies,” he has alleged.
The PPP Sindh president has also said that the court should not become a tool in the conspiratorial ambitions of Imran Khan. “Sindh had created Pakistan, and Sindh will not allow the country to be divided into two parts,” he has stated.
Nisar Khuhro has stressed that conducting elections is the authority of the election commission, adding that the decision of holding the elections should be left to the election commission.
“Interfering with the powers of the election commission will be an attempt to rig the elections. The court should review its decision by forming a full court bench,” he has demanded.
The PPP Sindh president has also said that the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) assemblies will be restored if they have to be restored.
He has added that the caretaker governments will be established after the completion of the constitutional period after which elections should be held in the country on the same day.