LAHORE: (HRNW) Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) remains undeterred and announced to hold an election rally again tomorrow (Monday) after the scheduled rally on Sunday was called off due to the ban on public gatherings.
The rally will be held from Imran Khan’s Zaman Park residence to Data Darbar on Monday, March 13 at 2 PM. The PTI Chief will himself lead the election rally being held ahead of the polls in Punjab.
The PTI has released the rally schedule from Zaman Park to Data Darbar. The rally will reach Allama Iqbal Road Railway Station and Data Darbar from Zaman Park
PTI Chairman Imran Khan announced to lead a public rally on Sunday (today) in connection with the election campaign for the upcoming election in Punjab.
Soon after, the district administration invoked Section 144 and banned public gatherings, citing security concerns due to a Pakistan Super League (PSL) match being played in the provincial capital.
The PTI was compelled to postpone the party’s election rally, with the PTI chief calling on his workers to “not fall into this trap”.
“It seems again that Section 144 has been imposed illegally solely on the PTI election campaign as all other public activities are ongoing in Lahore,” he said on Twitter.
He said only Zaman Park had been surrounded by containers and a heavy police contingent. He said the Punjab CM and police want to provoke clashes to file more sham FIRs against the PTI leadership and workers and use it as a pretext for postponing elections.
“Election schedule has been announced so how can Section 144 be imposed on political activity? I AM TELLING ALL PTI WORKERS NOT TO FALL INTO THIS TRAP. Hence we have postponed the rally till tomorrow,” he added.
PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that the party was postponing its rally till tomorrow.
“Imran will lead the rally tomorrow from Zaman Park to Data Darbar. Will make a third attempt to carry out a peaceful rally,” he said.
He also announced they will approach the Lahore High Court (LHC) against the decision. He urged party workers to remain peaceful and said that the caretaker government wants to create a clash and have an excuse to arrest PTI activists.
PTI’s Hammad Azhar that the party didn’t want “more bodies to fall”. He alleged that the murder of PTI worker Bilal was covered up, but said that the party wanted a peaceful struggle.