Karachi: The election for Mayor and Deputy Mayor Karachi will be held today (Thursday), People’s Party’s Murtaza Wahab and Jamaat-e-Islami’s Hafiz Naeemur Rehman will contest for Mayor.
People’s Party’s Salman Abdullah Murad and Jamaat-e-Islami’s Saifuddin Advocate are in the field for deputy mayor, the election battle for chairman and vice chairman of 9 towns municipal corporation will also take place today, in 11 towns the candidates have won unopposed.
According to Express News, after the withdrawal of alternative candidates, PPP’s barrister Murtaza Wahab and Jamaat-e-Islami’s Hafiz Naeemur Rehman are in the field for the mayoral race of Karachi, while PPP’s Salman Abdullah Murad and Jamaat-e-Islami’s Saifuddin Advocate are in the field. There will be competition between
In view of the expected rains in Karachi, the Election Commission has given the status of polling station to Arts Council Auditorium instead of KMC Building, where polling will be held by show of hand between 9 am and 5 am, as per the schedule of City Council. Members have to reach the polling station with original identity card.
The doors of the auditorium will be closed after 10:30 a.m. According to the Election Commission, the private media will not be able to cover the polling process, but the initial proceedings will be broadcasted through the official TV, the show of hands will not be broadcasted by the official television. will show Polling will start after 10:30 am.
First of all, after the announcement of Murtaza Wahab, the candidate of the People’s Party, those who voted for him will raise their hands, the names of the voters will be called according to the Urdu alphabet, the supporting voter will be counted from one side of the auditorium and every The member shall put his thumb mark and sign in front of his name in a register, his thumb shall also be indelibly inked.
After that polling will be done in the same way with the announcement of the name of Jamaat-e-Islami candidate Hafiz Naeemur Rahman, after the election of the mayor, the election of the deputy mayor will also be done in the same way and then the returning officer Nazar Abbas will announce the results. The number of members of People’s Party is 155, Jamaat-e-Islami 130, PTI 62, Muslim League (N) 14, JUI 4 and Tehreek Labeek 1 seat.
For the election of mayor in the house of 366, the majority of the members who are present in the hall at that time is required, i.e. they do not need a simple majority of the total members of the city council. Thus, his total number of voters is 173 while the combined members of Jamaat-e-Islami and Tehreek-e-Insaaf are 192 which was enough to get the mayor’s seat but the situation may change after the revolt of 30 members of PTI.
The Election Commission has also issued production orders to bring the arrested leaders to the polling station. Action will be taken against rioting and obstruction inside the polling station under the Election Code of Conduct. It will be illegal to campaign within four hundred meters of the polling station. Political parties, candidates and polling agents will be bound to avoid any opinion against the ideology of Pakistan, judiciary and armed forces.
16 out of 25 town chairman elected unopposed
On the other hand, in 16 out of 25 Town Municipal Corporations of Karachi, People’s Party has won 8, Jamaat-e-Islami has won 6 and Tehreek-e-Insaf has won 2 unopposed. The People’s Party has won unopposed in Gadap Town, Malir Town, Ibrahim Hydari Town in Malir District, Lyari Town in South District, Manghopir Town in West District, Baldia Town in Kemari District, Morero Mir Bahar Town and Maripur Town.
Jamaat-e-Islami has won unopposed on the posts of Chairman Vice Chairman in Landhi Town of Korangi District, Model Colony Town, North Nazimabad Town of Central District, Gulbarg Town, Liaquatabad Town and Nazimabad Town. The towns that Tehreek-e-Insaf has won unopposed include Sadar Town of South District and Shah Faisal Town of Korangi District. Thus, today (June 15) elections will be held in 9 towns for the posts of chairman and vice chairman.
(function(d, s, id){
var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}
js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3&appId=770767426360150”;
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, ‘script’, ‘facebook-jssdk’));
(function(d, s, id) {
var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_GB/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.7”;
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, ‘script’, ‘facebook-jssdk’));