Sunday 12 May 2013

General Elections 2013:

PTI, PML-N supporters celebrate victories



ISLAMABAD: The supporters of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf separately continued celebrating victory of their respective parties in Saturday's election.
A large number of party supporters thronged the party offices to share their joys with fellow supporters on the holiday, while youngsters took to the city roads on motorbikes to express their feelings in a zigzag fashion, waving flags of their parties.
The supporters of both the parties were looking more than happy on the unexpected success of their supportive candidates. They expressed their joys by raising slogans in favour of their supportive parties and playing their party anthems in their vehicles loudly.
The day also witnessed a large number of PML-N and PTI supporters visiting their party offices. However, in some residential areas the loud noises created by motorbikes with their silencers removed ridden by youth irked the citizens.
Raja Shaukat, a supporter of PML-N told The Spokesman, “The public did not listen to the propaganda spread by other political parties and casted their votes for the right political party, which is PML-N. Now it is time to celebrate the success.”
While Nabeel Ahmed, a PTI fan said, “PTI did to secure most seats for the national assembly as we all were expecting, but this actually beginning of the positive political change. The educated class of the capital has also chose PTI as their representative party”.
In NA-48, PTI’s Makhdoom Javed Hashmi won the seat by securing 73,692 votes. He was competing with PML-N’s Anjum Aqeel with 52,170 votes, PPPP’s Faisal Sakhi Butt with 9,177 votes and JI’s Mian Aslam with 25,010 votes.
Total turnout in this constituency was 59.55 percent, while in NA-49, the second constituency of federal capital, Dr Tariq Fazal Choudhary of PML-N was declared successful who secured 95,701 votes out of 334,214 registered voters. He was competing with PTI’s Choudhary Ilyas Meherban with 57,160 votes, PPPP’s Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar with 44,646 votes and JI’s Zubair Farooq with 11,230 votes. In this constituency, the total turnout remained 64.36 percent.

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