PESHAWAR – Former ruling party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf managed to win a by-election held for the vacant seat of chairman in Peshawar’s Mathra tehsil.
Imran Khan-led party faced back to back setbacks as over hundred leaders including some of close aides of the PTI chief distanced themselves from politics and the party following My 9 events this year, and in a recent development, party chairman has been jailed in a corruption case.
Despite the detention of the party chief and massive crackdown, PTI bagged victory in the Peshawar local government by-election, winning the slots for chairman tehsil council.
PTI candidate secured 20,333 votes, and his rival from Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), remained runner-up by getting 13,564 votes. Jamat-e-Islami candidate got 9,546 votes, ANP’s Aziz Ghaffar secured 2,721 votes, PPP got 5,377 votes and PML-N remained last with 3,351 votes.
Earlier, the electoral authority had set up over hundreds of polling stations for by-elections.
Following the victory, PTI leader Asad Umar, took to social media, saying the best thing about the success in yesterday’s Mathra tehsil election is that Tehreek-e-Insaaf’s candidate Inam who is a general worker of the party and trained by ISF.
Asad was of the view that the ideology of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf succeeded against those who spend crores.
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