‘New elections in Punjab will be held before Ramzan’: Fawad Chaudhry

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and former federal minister Fawad Chaudhry has said that elections in Punjab will be held before the start of the holy month of Ramzan.

Chaudhry, in a tweet, claimed that several members of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) have contacted PTI for party tickets to contest elections in Punjab. He further stated that the candidate for each constituency would be evaluated on merit.

“New elections will be held in Punjab before March 20,” he declared.

پنجاب تحریک انصاف نون لیگ کے ہر وار کیلئے تیار ہے، دونوں صورتوں میں فوری ووٹنگ کروا کر یہ تحریکیں ناکام بنا دی جائینگی، نون لیگ اور پیپلز پارٹی کے بیس سے پچیس ممبران ٹکٹ کیلئے رجوع کر رہے ہیں ہر حلقے کا میرٹ پر جائزہ لیں گے بیس مارچ سے قبل پنجاب میں نئے انتخابات ہو جائیں گے https://t.co/FmytHV24R7

— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) November 30, 2022

Fawad maintained that the Punjab division of the party is ready for “every attack” from the PML-N.

PML-N has stated multiple times that it would not concede to the PTI’s demand for snap polls.

On the previous Saturday, Khan announced that PTI wouldn’t be part of “this system” and would quit all the assemblies. Following this, PTI members also agreed with the decision to dissolve Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) assemblies. However, an official announcement regarding the dissolution is yet to be made.