Polls Delay Increasing Expenses Beyond Reach
Candidates, mainly from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and the Pakistan People's Party and some independent candidates hold again closed their ballot assistance for three weeks, considering they could not bear the daily expenses.
A survey report of the city's four main constituencies quoted the candidates considering saying that they had to spend Rs 3,000 to Rs 5,000 a allotment for running their hustings assistance, and that they could not bear the expenses for aggrandized 40 days. The accommodation control had either removed the candidates' streamer and posters for the January 8 elections, in that they had been postponed till February 18, or they had been destroyed by mobs during the current political agitation influence the country.
The PML-N candidate for NA-121, Mian Marghoob Ahmad, told Daily Times that he had decorated the constituency blot out his posters and banners but all was destroyed. "The mistiness or precipitate may ruin my publicity aim if I re-array my banners and posters at once," he oral, citing a budgetary loss in the wake of the delay in the elections.
He said the PML-N provincial leadership had also directed its candidates to cut short their expenditures on the election campaign, as the party did not have enough funds to support them. The banners would be displayed only at the meeting places, according to the directions by the party leadership.
Ahmad said that after ashura, the candidates would re-launch their publicity campaign.
Zikria Butt, a PPP candidate for NA-119, said that till martyred PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto's chelum, the party would not install any colourful posters or banners.
He said the party had decided to curtail its campaign to reduce the election expenditure. PML-N central finance secretary Muhammad Pervaiz Malik said the delay in elections could prove dangerous for the country, as the decision had been made without consulting the leading political parties.
January 04, 2008
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