The Chief of the Election Commission, who is Sultan Raja, has said that the responsibility of conducting the elections should be the Election Commission’s and no one else’s and the municipal elections in Karachi will be held soon.
Regarding this, in the presence of the Election Commissioner, a hearing was held on the application filed by MQM regarding the seats of local body elections in Karachi.
When the hearing was going on, Sultan Raja told the lawyers of MQM that you have already gone to many forums and this issue has never come up before. Election commissioner said that if you want to raise any issue further than raise it today so that we all can hear this issue.
Apart from this, Sultan Raja said that you people are making wrong statements and saying that Electoral Rules are used, can you delay the election, all the statements you have made are illegal, and we do not understand them.
Along with this, he said that the election will be held soon because it is our responsibility.
After considering this hearing, the Election Commission gave a decision on the MQM application and reserved it.