{"id":85441,"date":"2025-09-09T17:29:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=85441"},"modified":"2025-09-09T17:29:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:29:35","slug":"pml-ns-rana-sanaullah-clinches-punjab-senate-seat-in-dominant-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pml-ns-rana-sanaullah-clinches-punjab-senate-seat-in-dominant-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"PML-N&#8217;s Rana Sanaullah clinches Punjab Senate seat in dominant victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Another victory for the PML-N, party heavyweight <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/featured\/imran-khans-son-to-get-arrested-if-they-join-protest-warns-rana-sanaullah\/\">Rana Sanaullah<\/a> stunned the opposition by winning the Punjab Senate by-election with 250 votes.<\/p>\n<p>The high-stakes contest followed the dramatic ouster of PTI\u2019s Ijaz Chaudhry, who lost his seat after serving a jail sentence for his role in the May 9, 2023 riots. His disqualification set the stage for the most power-packed election battle in Punjab in recent memory.<\/p>\n<p>Sanaullah, unanimously supported by the ruling alliance of the PML-N, PPP, IPP, and PML-Q, surpassed the required mark of 180 votes, sending a clear message of the alliance\u2019s dominance.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition had initially fielded Salma Ijaz, the wife of the ousted PTI senator, who had about 100 votes. But in a shocking last-minute twist, the opposition suddenly announced a boycott. Despite their names remaining on the ballot, PTI lawmakers were strictly ordered by Deputy Opposition Leader Moin Qureshi not to vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Another victory for the PML-N, party heavyweight Rana Sanaullah stunned the opposition by winning the Punjab Senate by-election with 250 votes. The high-stakes contest followed the dramatic ouster of PTI\u2019s Ijaz Chaudhry, who lost his seat after serving a jail sentence for his role in the May 9, 2023 riots. His disqualification set the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,147],"tags":[192],"class_list":["post-85441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-rana-sanaullah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85441","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=85441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85446,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85441\/revisions\/85446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}