In-charge Central Election Monitoring Cell of Pakistan Peoples Party, Taj Haider in a letter addressed to the Chief Election Commissioner.
Following is the full text of the letter:-
“Allotment of Party symbol (Arrow) to our candidate on PP 163.
We have the honor to bring to your kind notice that regretfully in spite of agreement of the learned lawyer of the Commission in the hearing of the above case in Lahore High Court this morning, on allotting the Party symbol (Arrow) to our candidate on PP 163, the extremely biased Returning Officer of the constituency has raised frivolous objections on the issue of Party ticket to our candidate Mr. Fayyaz Bhatti.
Under Section 66 of the Election Act 2017, the presentation of the Party ticket by a candidate to the Returning Officer is sufficient proof of affiliation of the candidate with that political Party. It is unfortunate that the RO with malafide intent continues to obstruct the allotment of the Party ticket to our candidate. His action and attitude amounts to a clear contempt of the Honorable Lahore High Court.
In this situation besides requesting that the symbol should be allotted to our candidate without further delay we demand that the biased Returning Officer should be removed from his position.”