PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday slammed Khyber-Pakhtunkwa MPAs for indulging in ‘horse-trading’ and ‘selling their vote to the highest bidder’.
In the wake of Senate elections, the PTI chief took to Twitter and blasted MPAs for alleged horse-trading, further accusing them of ‘selling vote to the highest bidder’. He added that such practices lead to moral decline of Pakistan’s political class.
Continuing his tirade, Khan said that for this reason, PTI had presented alternate election formats of either direct elections or elections on party lists, since the party had reservations concerning the issue. He added that ‘horse-trading’ allowed Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) to secure two seats from KP despite the fact they had only 7 MPAs in the province.
Earlier today, provisional results from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lead Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province showed that the KP ruling party remained in the lead.
PTI managed to secure 5 seats, PML-N backed independent candidates and PPP bagged 2 seats, while JUI-F and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) scored one each.