LAHORE: The Lahore High Court(LHC) suspended the notification of the victory of PML-N's Azhar Qayyum Nahra from NA-81 Gujranwala.
Justice Shahid Karim heard the request of Chaudhry Bilal Ejaz of the Sunni Ittehad Council.
In the petition, the stand was adopted that Chaudhry Bilal Ejaz was declared successful in the February 8 election with 8,000 votes.
The petitioner thought that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) declared the opposition candidate Azhar Qayyum Nahra successful in the recount of votes.
In his petition, Bilal Ijaz alleged that the returning officer had declared Azhar Qayyum the winner by reducing the petitioner's votes on recounting of votes.
After hearing the arguments, the court suspended the notification of victory of PML-N candidate Azhar Qayyum from NA-81 Gujranwala.
On the other hand, Rana Muhammad Arshad of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz(PML-N) was declared successful in the re-counting in the Punjab Assembly Constituency PP 133.
According to the returning officer, Rana Muhammad Arshad of PML-N got 44,323 votes while independent candidate Mian Atif got 41,632 votes.
Rana Muhammad Arshad of PML-N was declared successful with a margin of 2,691 votes.
It should be noted that the first independent candidate Mian Atif was successful in this contest.
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Earlier, Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) rejected the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) candidate’s request for a vote recount in NA-266 (Kila Abdullah-Cum Chaman).
