Election of Senate Chairman: Imran says PTI won't vote for Raza Rabbani

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has said that PPP leader Raza Rabbani is a man of repute, but the PTI would not vote for him as the party has decided in principle neither to vote for the PML-N candidate nor the PPP candidate in the Senate elections. Speaking at a press conference here on Tuesday, he said: "As far as I know him (Raza Rabbani), he has a good reputation. We will watch his performance as the Chairman of Senate."
He said that all status quo parties wanted to buy conscience of PTI members in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during the Senate elections, but they (PTI members) refused to sell their conscience for money. "This is a big change and we will continue to work for better Pakistan," he said, adding that the PTI is the only party that is struggling for fair and free elections in the country.
Khan said that out of four constituencies that his party has been demanding vote audit into, three have been referred to the National Database and Registration Authority for thumb verification. "We will launch a street movement if the government fails to constitute a judicial commission even after the report of NADRA," he said. The PTI has its vote bank across Pakistan and all efforts would be made to force the government to constitute a judicial commission to probe alleged rigging in the May 2013 general elections, he said.
"I foresee 2015 as the year of re-election as the PML-N has rigged the 2013 general elections," he said, adding that both the PML-N and the PPP were protecting interests and corruption of each other. Khan said that his party leader Asad Umar had tabled a motion in the National Assembly that all parliamentarians should declare their assets and tax returns to ensure transparency and good governance.
"There is no progress on it so far as all the parties are protecting each others' corruption and misdeeds in parliament," he said. Talking about some new members joining the PTI, he said that there was no committee before to decide on joining of the new members, but "now we have formed a political committee to assess credentials of the new members coming in the party". He said that if a person who has got his vote bank and good repute in his constituency wants to join the PTI, he would be welcomed. Khan said that whoever joins the PTI, must accept the party policy and manifesto.