PTI leader Gohar Ali Khan reveals party\u2019s plan of action to get reserved seats after Feb 8 elections
\nIslamabad
\nDespite all seemingly lost for the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the former ruling party is determined to give a tough time to its political opponents as it has announced \u2018Plan C\u2019 for when votes are cast and assemblies will be formed.
\nThe PTI, founded by former prime minister Imran Khan, faced two major setbacks last Saturday \u2014 the Supreme Court ruling in favour of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and depriving PTI of its \u2018bat\u2019 symbol and the Tehreek-e-Insaf Nazriati backtracking on a deal with the party to share its symbol for elections.
\nAlthough all PTI candidates will be contesting independently in the February 8 elections with various symbols \u2014 kettle, brinjal, tongs, etc \u2014 their leadership had voiced concerns that they would not be getting reserved seats as they are allocated for political parties.
\nThis would be a major setback for any party that wishes to come into power in the National Assembly, which has 336 total seats 70 have been reserved for women and non-Muslims.
\nIn the Balochistan provincial legislature, out of 65, 14 are reserved seats; Khyber Pakh\u00adtunkhwa has 30 reserved in the house of 145; Sindh has 38 reserved seats, while the total number is 168; Punjab has 371 seats out of which 74 are reserved.
\nPTI\u2019s senior leader Barrister Gohar Ali Khan also told journalists in Islamabad that he feared there would be \u201chorse-trading\u201d as when his party\u2019s candidates won, other political parties would poach them to strengthen their position. In conversation, PTI leader Gohar said when the February 8 elections are done, \u201cwe will not get reserved seats\u201d. \u201cHowever, there is something: Once our candidates are elected, they can join us and we can reform our party.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we will have three days after the elections. When they join us and tell [relevant authorities] that they have joined this party, we can get the reserved seats.\u201d<\/p>\n
When the anchorperson said this was a strategy that he shouldn\u2019t have revealed on live television, he said: \u201cThis is our Plan C \u2014 to bring back the people [under one umbrella].\u201d<\/p>\n
Barrister Muhammad Ahmed Pansota told Geo.tv that the political party is still intact, it is its symbol that has been taken away for the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo once the general as well as the intra-party elections take place, the party can always apply on the basis of their symbol for the reserved seats. Also, if they join a political party, they can also get the reserved seats; it will be an interesting situation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PTI leader Gohar Ali Khan reveals party\u2019s plan of action to get reserved seats after Feb 8 elections Islamabad Despite all seemingly lost for the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the former ruling party is determined to give a tough time to its political opponents as it has announced \u2018Plan C\u2019 for when votes are cast and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n