Prime Minister Imran Khan Tuesday conceded defeat in the first phase of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa local government elections 2021, admitting that wrong candidate selection was a major cause for the PTI’s shock defeat in the recent polls.<\/p>\n
The prime minister’s tweet comes a day after Opposition parties, particularly the JUI-F, took an unassailable lead in Khyber Pakhtunkwa’s ongoing local body elections, leaving the PTI behind, according to unofficial results.<\/p>\n
The ruling party could not grab even a single mayor seat out of the four. The PTI could only manage to win one tehsil in Peshawar out of six tehsils.<\/p>\n
“PTI made mistakes in 1st phase of KP LG elections & paid the price. Wrong candidate selection was a major cause. From now on I will personally be overseeing PTI’s LG election strategy in 2nd phase of KP LG elections & LG elections across Pak. InshaAllah PTI will come out stronger,” tweeted the prime minister.<\/p>\n
In the 64 tehsil council unofficial results obtained so far, the JUI-F has emerged victorious in 16 tehsil council seats while the PTI has won in 14.<\/p>\n
Independent candidates have won 10, ANP six, PML-N three, Jamaat-e-Islami two, and Tehreek-e-Istiqlal in the tehsil council elections.<\/p>\n
A day earlier, Federal Minister for Science and Technology Shibli Faraz said that the PTI didn’t do too bad in the first phase of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa local government elections.<\/p>\n
PTI has learned a lot from the ongoing local government elections in KP and the party will use this experience to prepare for the next elections, Faraz had said.<\/p>\n
“We have been given a chance to change our strategy and eliminate our shortcomings,” Faraz had said while expressing his views over the results of the LG polls where the Opposition party JUI-F emerged victorious, bagging the majority of the seats.<\/p>\n
The Opposition parties, particularly JUI-F, have taken an unassailable lead in KP’s ongoing local body elections, leaving PTI behind, according to unofficial results.<\/p>\n
According to Faraz, PTI’s performance in the contest was still not that bad.<\/p>\n
“The reason behind PTI’s failure in the election is that most of PTI’s candidates contested against aspirants of their own party,” the minister had said.<\/p>\n
He had said that another reason was that some people were resentful over the current wave of inflation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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