Senators question election 2024, call for CEC’s resignation

Senators have expressed disapproval of Elections 2024 results and asked the Chief Election Commissioner Sikander Sultan Raja to resign over irregularities in the polls.

Speaking in the senate Jamaat-i-Islami’s Senator Mushtaq Ahmed called to form a judicial commission which would conduct an inquiry of all institutions.

He said that the Election Commission of Pakistan should “apologise” to people of Pakistan and asked for proceedings under Article 6 (treason) to be initiated against the CEC.

Meanwhile, Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz Senator Irfan Siddique said that elections history in Pakistan is “not pleasant”.

“If elections were controversial then that did not mean that one Form 45 was correct while another was not. Do not imbalance the scale like this,” he said.

Siddique said that if rigging had taken place, they had taken place across the board, not just in one province or constituency.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senator Waleed Iqbal has termed the entire electoral process “tainted”.

He questioned the shutting down of mobile and internet services on the election day.

Iqbal said that the caretaker government and the election commission would have to prove that there was no “malice” in this regard.

He further asked about the whereabouts of the Form 45, noting that the chief election commissioner had directed to release all results till 2am on election night.