Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Thursday reached Lodhran to celebrate party's Secretary General Jahangir Tareen victory in by-election on NA-154. Talking to media, Khan said that several dummy polling stations were caught in NA-154 claiming that elections were rigged at some stations in the constituency. The PTI chief said that PTI defeated the ruling party with a margin of as many as 40,000 votes which is huge. He said that members of the party worked really hard and the party deserved this achievement.
Addressing a celebratory public gathering in Lodhran, Imran Khan thanked the people of Lodhran for "supporting the cause of justice." "You refused to accept the government's Rs 2 billion bribe via the farmers' package," Imran told the crowd. The PTI chief questioned as to how and why the PML-N lost by a wide margin of 40,000 votes in the Lodhran by-poll which had won local body polls comprehensively in the district.
"The by-poll was conducted under the army's check but the local government elections were conducted by PML-N patwaris and bureaucrats," he argued. Imran Khan also urged the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) to ensure dispensation of justice in the NA-122 case, which will go to hearing on December 30. "With all due respect, we want to know how 26,000 new votes were added to the constituency when there were only 812 new votes on the record," he questioned. Imran Khan said that people of Lodhran fought federal and provincial governments.
Khan said that almost all the political parties of the country take turns by 'buying' Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). Earlier on his arrival in Lodhran, Khan while talking to media Imran Khan announced that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government will introduce a ban on stopping traffic for VIP protocol and condemned the death of 10-month old Bisma in Karachi due to Bilawal Bhutto's protocol. "I will meet KP Chief Minister Pervez Khattak in this regard. Traffic will not be stopped for any VIP protocol, even if it is the prime minister. We will start change from KP."