Reacting to Shahbaz Gill’s allegations, the Punjab election commissioner said that the polling process shouldn’t be made controversial by levelling allegations without confirmation. He rejected the allegations of expelling polling agents out of the polling stations 46 and 47 in Muzaffargarh. The provincial election commissioner further stated that the polling agents verified by political parties are allowed to sit at the polling stations. Meanwhile, the returning officer said that PTI’s polling agent Amir Bakhsh was present at polling station number 44, but no polling agent of PTI arrived at polling station number 46. Earlier, PTI leader Shahbaz Gill criticised the polling staff at a polling station where he claimed that a woman who came to cast her vote was sent to another constituency because her name wasn’t in the voters’ list.


Source:   The Nation
July 17, 2022 16:30 UTC