All arrangements for Elecions-2008 have been finalised in the district and 2,958,785 out of 1,315.769 female voters will decide the fate of 70 candidates for the National Assembly and 171 candidates for the Punjab Assembly, who are contesting elections on 11 national and 22 provincial assembly seats in Faisalabad district.
The Election Commission has set up 2,948 polling stations, including 1,159 male, 1,126 female and 663 combined polling stations with 7,062 polling booths, including 3,886 male and 3,176 female booths in the district.
There will be a triangular competition between PPP, PML(Q) and PML(N) in nine National Assembly constituencies of the district, while in two constituencies, NA-75 and NA-79, will witness one-to-one or quadruple fight between PPP and PML(Q), where PML(N) is backing PPP candidates.
A tough competition is expected between former MNA Ghulam Rasool Sahi of the PML(Q) and Pakistan People's Party's (PPP) Tariq Mehmood Bajwa son of ex-MNA Ghulam Mustafa Bajwa are in the field to win NA-75. The PML-N supports the PPP here to outclass Ghulam Rasool Sahi, elder brother of Muhammad Afzal Sahi, Speaker, Punjab Assembly.
Another, one to one tough contest will be placed on February 18 in NA-79, where PML-N supports the PPP candidate Raheela Perveen Baluch against Rajab Ali Khan Baluch former parliamentary secretary of PML-Q.
In third major contest, former federal textile minister Mushtaq Ali Cheema (PML-Q) is contesting to retain NA-83 against PPP's Ijaz Ahmed Virk, advocate, and PML-N's Mian Mannan Ahmed, former minister. Here a close triangular contest is expected between PPP, PML (Q), and PML (N) candidates.
In NA-84, Abid Sher Ali (PML-N), Mehr Abdul Rasheed (PPP) and Rana Zahid Mehmood (PML-Q) are contesting from here. Abid Sher Ali close relative of Mian Nawaz Sharif is considered a strong candidate. Abid has chances of winning the seat.
According to a report from Jhang, the participants of defunct Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) rally opened fire at the residence of former federal preliminary secretary and a PML-Q candidate for NA-89, Sh Waqas Akram on Saturday evening.
Reportedly, the defunct SSP candidate for NA-89, Maulana Muhammad Ahmad Ludhianvi's supporters took out a rally on Saturday and a number of armed activists riding motorcycles escorted the rally. When they reached the residence of Sh Waqas Akram in front of DPO House they started aerial firing. The security guards posted at Waqas' residence also resorted to aerial firing.
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