Dramatic situation in Sialkot, will Khawaja Asif win? Amazing details
ISLAMABAD (Shahzad Paracha) As Usman Dar's mother Rehana Imtiaz Dar is contesting the election, all the eyes of Pakistan are on National Assembly Constituency NA-71 whether PML-N's senior leader Khawaja Asif will be able to save his National Assembly seat. ?
Traditionally, this constituency has been the stronghold of the Muslim League-Nawaz, due to which the leader of the Muslim League, Khawaja Asif, has won elections from this constituency in 1997, 2008, 2013 and 2018. Dar was defeated by only 1406 votes, Khawaja Asif got 117,002 votes while Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf's Usman Dar got 115,596 votes.
Muslim League-Nawaz has re-issued a ticket to its senior party leader Khawaja Asif in National Assembly Constituency 71 (formerly NA 73) in the February 8 election. is contesting the election while Khawaja Owais is contesting the election on the PPP ticket.
Sialkot city, famous for football exports of Pakistan, consists of 65% educated people. The number of voters in this constituency including Sialkot city and cantonment is 577,281, in which 305,133 are male and 272,148 are female voters.
Questions were raised on the results of this constituency of the National Assembly from the first day, but in October 2020, it was revealed among the former army chief and parliamentary leaders of various parties that Khawaja Asif had called the former army chief on the night of the election on July 25 and asked for help. Who was
Khawaja Asif had told the media that on the night of the election, he informed General Bajwa about rigging in the constituency.
After losing the seat to Khawaja Asif, former Prime Minister Imran Khan included Usman Dar in his cabinet and entrusted him with the portfolio of youth affairs, after which Usman Dar not only carried out development work in the region, which strengthened the party's vote bank. happened
Apart from this, Dar mobilized himself up to the union councils and ward level due to which he emerged as a strong candidate against his political rival Khawaja Asif before May 9.
According to analysts closely watching the politics of Sialkot constituencies, after the PDM government led by former Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, if the elections were held before May 9, Usman Dar would have defeated his political rival Khawaja Asif with a big lead. However, there was a temporary change in the situation after the arrest of Imran Khan on May 9 and the protests and violent demonstrations.
PTI's former MPA from Sialkot Chaudhary Akhlaq called the party Khairabad, after Usman Dar's TV interview spread frustration among the people of the constituency in which he expressed his indifference to politics.
After the video of the police misbehaving with women including the mother of Usman Dar in raid at the house of Usman Dar, PTI has given a new birth. Expressed sympathy.
A dramatic change in the situation was felt after the announcement of Suhaga Rehana Imtiaz Dar to contest elections in this constituency.
According to the analysts, Election Management Day is very important despite the public polls. It is also necessary to have polling agents at the most important polling stations. There are 357 polling stations in this constituency. The latter involves casting votes to the maximum number of voters.
