Saeed Ghani says candidates for mayor, deputy, vice chairmen to serve in best way
KARACHI
The Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) on Monday announced it had nominated Karachi Administrator Murtaza Wahab as its candidate for the city’s mayor slot and Salman Murad for the seat of deputy mayor.
The announcement was made by PPP leader Nisar Khuhro during a press conference in Karachi where he announced the list of PPP nominees for local body seats in Sindh — elections for which are scheduled to take place on June 15.
Nisar Khuhro said his party’s nomination for deputy mayor of Karachi was Salman Murad while Kashif Shoro was the nominee for Hyderabad mayor. Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) are yet to announce their nominees.
He said that Arsalan Sheikh has been nominated as a candidate for mayor of Sukkur city. Muhammad Anwar Lohar is nominated as a candidate for the post of mayor of Larkana and Muhammad Amin Sheikh for Deputy mayor of Larkana.
He said that PPP nominated Gul Muhammad Khan Jakarani as a candidate for chairman district council from Kashmore and Altaf Khoso as his vice chairman. Mir Rashid Khan has been nominated as the chairman candidate for municipal committee Kandhkot and Sher Muhammad Korani is named as a candidate for the vice chairman slot.
Tahir Khoso has been nominated as a candidate for chairman district council Jacobabad. Qamar Uddin Gopang is nominated for Chairman of District Council Qamar Shahdad Kot candidate. Zulfiqar Kumari for Chairman District Council Shikarpur, Ejaz Leghari for Chairman District Council Larkana, Isran for vice chairman Qamber Shahdad Kot.
On Twitter, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari congratulated all the nominated candidates and said “People have expressed faith in the PPP. Now let’s go win the next round and get going with what we do best, serving the people.
”A special thank you to Hyderabad & Karachi for trusting us for the first time. I have full faith that Shoro & Wahab will be the first but not the last PPP mayors of our two great cities.” Last month, PPP emerged as the largest party in local government by-election in Sindh. The polls were held in January on most seats and elections for remaining seats were held in May.
Overall, the largest number of seats in local government polls in Karachi were secured by PPP with 98 union committees (UCs), followed by JI with 89 seats and PTI with 42 seats.
As per reports, PPP won from seven out of eleven UCs in Karachi, while four UCs were bagged by JI.PPP also won two out of four union councils in Hyderabad. It bagged a majority in all the districts where elections were held.
Meanwhile, in a statement Monday, Sindh Labour and Human Resources Minister, Saeed Ghani, has said that God willing PPP’s candidate nominated for Karachi mayoral poll will win the upcoming election to become the next mayor of the city as a die-hard activist of the People’s Party.
The Sindh Labour Minister greeted the PPP’s candidates nominated for the posts of Karachi mayor, deputy mayor, and chairmen, and vice-chairmen of 13 municipal towns to be formed in the city.
Ghani, who is also PPP Karachi President, hoped that these candidates after winning the upcoming polls would serve the people of the city in the best possible manner. He mentioned that the top leadership of the party after consulting the provincial and Karachi chapters of the People’s Party had fianlised names of these candidates.
He praised the PPP’s leadership for fianlising the name of Murtaza Wahab as the candidate for Karachi’s mayoral post. He recalled that recently Barrister Murtaza Wahab had served the residents of Karachi very well in his capacity as Karachi’s Administrator. He said that Barrister Wahab would win the mayoral election.
He also recalled his earlier statements that the next mayor of Karachi would be a die-hard worker of the People’s Party.
Ghani also predicted that the PPP’s nominated candidate Salman Abdullah Murad would win the poll for deputy mayor while other candidates of the People’s Party would emerge victorious in the elections for chairmen and vice-chairmen of 13 towns of Karachi.
He said that all these candidates after winning the elections would do their best to serve the residents of the city.
