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“I don’t want to indulge in blame game but people know what police and returning officers did during the polls in the Punjab. I wish that the PML-N had nothing to do with the incidents of partiality and the officials took the steps on their own.

(PPP) would welcome alliance with any party, including the Muslim Conference, though the PPP was in a position to form its government without support of other political parties.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and other opposition parties are working on all cylinders to mobilize public opinion on holding mid-term elections, believing that the incumbent PPP-led coalition government has become unpopular and lost public support. However, contrary to their thinking the June 26 AJK Legislative Assembly elections have laid this impression to rest for good.
In the elections, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) emerged as a majority largest party by securing 21 seats as against the N-league’s 8, Muslim Conference’s 4 and independents 2 seats. After a comfortable majority in the AJK Legislative Assembly, the PPP leadership made a very generous offer to accommodate any member or party in the future government.
Talking to the media persons in Islamabad, Minister for Kashmir Affairs Mian Manzoor Watoo said they (PPP) would welcome alliance with any party, including the Muslim Conference, though the PPP was in a position to form its government without support of other political parties. Observers noted that the offer was very much democratic and any sort of criticism of the government and its offer would be unwarranted. It was feared that if the PPP had failed to prove itself as a majority party in the elections, the PML-N would have joined the camp demanding mid-term elections.
Probably, it was the reason that while briefing reporters Manzoor Watoo said the AJK elections had blasted the reality of demand for mid-term elections. He said those claiming that the PPP or President Zardari’s popularity had dwindled should now understand that their popularity graph had risen compared with any political party or figure. “The demand for mid-term elections should come to end now and the opposition should read the message of the masses,” he said. In the Punjab and AJK, PML-N and Muslim Conference respectively are in charge of affairs and control administrative machinery.

So, the PPP could have blamed the parties concerned and governments for rigging in the elections held in AJK and the Punjab. But on the contrary, Wattoo appreciated the AJK government for holding free and fair elections. He said blaming the PPP-led government for any rigging in the general elections was baseless. “The PPP has coalition governments in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Sindh where the polls were postponed while polls in AJK and the Punjab, where Muslim Conference and PML-N respectively control administration, were held,” he added.

If anyone doubted that rigging was carried out then PML-N and MC would be responsible for that, he said, adding, “But I appreciate the MC steps for free and fair elections as it could secure only four seats and PPP 21, which was the proof of the AJK government’s impartiality”.

“I don’t want to indulge in blame game but people know what police and returning officers did during the polls in the Punjab. I wish that the PML-N had nothing to do with the incidents of partiality and the officials took the steps on their own,” he said. He said dates for holding polls in Sindh, Balochistan and KPK as well as other areas would be announced soon. He said the blame game should now come to an end, as elections in AJK had finished and general elections in Pakistan were not far away.

“The PPP leadership and President Asif Ali Zardari tasked me with ensuring free and fair elections and I honestly performed my duties. The blames against the PPP and its leaders are not new, as all opposition parties did their best to belittle the party in the Gilgit-Baltistan elections, but the PPP convincingly won there as well,” Wattoo said.

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