LAHORE – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan will contest next general elections from Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, party’s spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry said on Tuesday.
Addressing a party function held in Lahore on Tuesday, Chaudhry said that Mr Khan will kick off his nationwide tour on March 4 and will begin the electioneering after March 8.
According to the spokesman, the PTI failed to emerge victorious in the 2013 general elections as their candidates in the polls were ‘inexperienced’.
He added the PTI has emerged as the biggest political party of the country and Imran will be the next prime minister of Pakistan. “No political party, except the PTI, is in a position to contest elections from all four provinces,” Fawad claimed and added that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is limited to central Punjab while the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has shrunk to Sindh.
In the upcoming general elections, Chaudhry highlighted, his party would nominate around 250 nominees from different constituencies of the National Assembly out of total 272 seats on which the elections will be held. In the present political scenario, the ruling PML-N is hardly a party of 100 candidates, mainly in Punjab, he maintained.
Earlier, PTI leader Abdul Aleem Khan stated that the PTI chief would contest the upcoming general elections from five NA constituencies.
