{"id":23217,"date":"2024-01-19T23:20:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T18:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=23217"},"modified":"2024-01-19T23:20:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T18:20:44","slug":"ecp-postpones-na-poll-in-punjab-constituency-following-candidates-demise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ecp-postpones-na-poll-in-punjab-constituency-following-candidates-demise\/","title":{"rendered":"ECP postpones NA Poll in Punjab Constituency following candidate&#8217;s demise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SARGODHA: The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecp.gov.pk\/\">Election Commission of Pakistan<\/a> (ECP) has postponed the poll in one constituency of the National Assembly from Punjab after demise of a candidate.<\/p>\n<p>According to details, the election in NA-85 (Sargodha-IV) will not be held on 8th February as a candidate Sadiq Ali passed away.<\/p>\n<p>Returning Officer Muhammad Shoaib Nissoana has issued a notification for delaying the election in the constituency.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz\u2019s Zulfiqar Ali Bhatti, Khudad Kalyar Advocate of the Paksitan Tehreek-e-Insaf\u00a0 and other candidates are in the race from NA-85.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on January 16, the ECP said that the elections could be delayed in constituencies if the court allowed change in electoral symbols.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ecp-said-tensions-between-iran-and-pakistan-wont-impact-the-forthcoming-elections.html\">ECP said tensions between Iran and Pakistan won&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/em><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ecp-said-tensions-between-iran-and-pakistan-wont-impact-the-forthcoming-elections.html\">t impact the forthcoming elections<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The ECP meeting headed by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja was held to discuss matters related to change of election symbols ahead of election 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said, that the meeting was briefed on the proceedings regarding the publishing of ballet papers and overviewed the court verdicts on the pleas seeking change in electoral symbol.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ecp-bans-changing-of-election-symbols.html\">ECP bans changing of Election symbols<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The ECP also ordered the DROs across Pakistan to issue an order and bar the candidates from changing their electoral symbols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SARGODHA: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has postponed the poll in one constituency of the National Assembly from Punjab after demise of a candidate. According to details, the election in NA-85 (Sargodha-IV) will not be held on 8th February as a candidate Sadiq Ali passed away. Returning Officer Muhammad Shoaib Nissoana has issued a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":23218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,147],"tags":[491,10434,148,138,189],"class_list":["post-23217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-election-commission-of-pakistan","tag-elections-2024","tag-ecp","tag-pakistan","tag-punjab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}