PESHAWAR: The major opposition parties in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan are likely to devise an arrangement for fielding joint candidates in coming local government (LG) elections in order to defeat candidates of the ruling parties. Some senior activists of different political parties in background interviews said that people had attached great expectations to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led government, but the PTI seemed unable to materialise its election manifesto with the present “immature and non-serious” members of the assembly.
However, they said that the opposition parties would not be able to bring the people out in the local government elections unless they devised a joint strategy.
The workers of opposition parties, they said, had already been annoyed with their leaders and none of the parties would be able to win the LG election in individual capacity.
“Our party has so far not discussed the issue of alliance for LG elections, but in my opinion it is necessary (to win the polls),” said Maulana Abdul Jalil Jan, provincial spokesman of Jamiat Ulema Islam (JUI-F), on Monday when asked for his comments on the issue.
Jan said that in the prevailing situation all the parties should join hands to throw out the provincial coalition government and save the province.
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