Horns have been locked. Sleeves rolled, ballots ready to be stamped and voters are thronging the polling stations across NA 122 constituency in Lahore. Whole local and wide range of international media is present in the area amidst tight security under watchful guard of Pakistan army, rangers and police.
Following are some of the statistics about NA 122 by-elections today:
1) Total number of polling stations in NA-122 is 284.
2) 284 presiding officers along with 673 assistant presiding officers will be present.perform their duties number of male voters in this constituency is 190,328
3) Number of female voters is 157,434.
4) Total of 347,762 voters will exercise their right to vote.
5) The ECP has constituted 134 polling stations each for females and males along with 16 combined polling stations.
6) A total of 17 candidates are in the running in NA-122.
7) Main contenders are Sardar Ayaz Sadiq of the PML-N and Abdul Aleem Khan of the PTI
They hype around this election is extremely high. Stakes for both PTI and PMLN are high. They are taking this election as matter of life and death. That is bit exaggerated because things won’t end there as life goes on and politics goes on. Let’s see what this part of Lahore decides today.