ECP ‘modification’ of poll-related records raises questions | Khawar Ghumman's Analysis
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ECP ‘modification’ of poll-related records raises questions | Khawar Ghumman's Analysis
ECP ‘modification’ of poll-related records raises questions | Khawar Ghumman's Analysis
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00:00Election Commission of Pakistan, once again,
00:02they don't stop surprising us.
00:05Some or the other information comes to the media
00:08that people are surprised and worried
00:10about what the Election Commission of Pakistan is doing.
00:12Today, the front page of Don,
00:15the anchor is printed below, viewers.
00:17If you look at the headline of the story,
00:20Election Commission Modification of Poll-Related Records
00:24raises questions.
00:25This is today's viewer's story.
00:27The news in this is that the Election Commission
00:31has made some changes in the form 45
00:33which is necessary to be uploaded within 14 days.
00:39Let me tell you in order what this story is,
00:42what is the whole story behind it.
00:44Viewers, under Section 98-2 of Election Act 2017,
00:49within 14 days of polling day,
00:52it is necessary to upload form 45 on their website.
00:58However, even after 5 months of 8th February,
01:02the Election Commission has failed to fulfill its responsibilities.
01:06Viewers, on 3rd July,
01:08on 24th, the organization which keeps an eye on the election and democratic process,
01:12has published that out of 30 people in Lahore,
01:1520 of them were missing on the website of the form 45 of the election commission.
01:21Viewers, this is the incident of 3rd July.
01:23After that, the Election Commission has uploaded form 45
01:27without publishing the final results of these polls
01:31which is not allowed in the Election Act 2017.
01:36Then, on 5th July, 2024, Patan has again published a report
01:40according to which the Election Commission has uploaded 12 forms of National Assembly
01:44and 21 forms of Punjab Assembly form 45 again
01:49or has made some changes in them.
01:50Patan has also reported this and there was a discussion about this in the newspapers.
01:56According to Election Act 2017,
01:57the Election Commission has uploaded the final results of form 49 after publishing them.
02:04They were supposed to do this before, but they were done later.
02:06Form 45 cannot be changed without the order of the Supreme Court or Tribunal.
02:11The Election Commission has declared the news of the change of form 45 to be misleading.
02:17However, Don newspaper on 8th July,
02:20has wrongly declared the confirmation of Patan's claim and the position of the Election Commission.
02:25According to Don's report,
02:27the website of the form 45 of the election commission was missing till 3rd July.
02:32Whereas, in the last week, the data of the form 45 of the National Assembly and the form 45 of the election commission
02:42has been changed.
02:45The confirmation of Patan's claim was also given by Judge Anwar Hussain on 2nd July
02:52when he gave remarks in the appeal against the success of Mariam Nawaz's Halka PP 159.
02:58During this time, the Lawyer of the Election Commission had asked for time to present the original record of form 45.
03:05Justice Anwar had asked a question there,
03:08that where is form 45?
03:09Why has it not been uploaded on the website yet?
03:11Viewers, let us bring you back to the story of Don.
03:15After the story of Don, he is saying that when the Election Commission was asked today,
03:20please take it down,
03:23that why have you done all this modification?
03:25They said that this is an honest mistake.
03:28I mean, we have not done this on the basis of malice,
03:31it is honest, it may have been a procedural matter.
03:34Starting with you, Chaudhary Ghulam Hussain Sahib,
03:37these revelations, these anomalies, dichotomies,
03:43whatever you want to call them in English, they are full of them.
03:48What will be their solution?
03:52They have no solution.
03:54In our village, you are also a villager,
04:00the thieves, or the people's things,
04:04they steal, they rob, they do all kinds of things.
04:11Then they try to cover the tracks.
04:16So now, the crime that has been committed,
04:18to cover it, sometimes they will take the support of the law,
04:22sometimes they will modify it, sometimes they will try,
04:25sometimes they will try.
04:26This operation will continue,
04:30but nothing will happen.
04:32People have spoken,
04:34and they have definitely spoken against them.
04:36Now, the way they had, they have not chosen it.
04:40Now, you have seen in Britain,
04:42he lost, in 2-4 minutes, he announced it,
04:45he picked up his bag and went home,
04:47the new prime minister has come.
04:49Or you have seen it in India too.
04:51You have put another tradition,
04:53and you are insisting that we are fine,
04:55and we live, the people are with us,
04:57the country is with us,
04:59because we are fine.
05:00And we are fine.
05:02For God's sake, explain to them,
05:04that this path is not right.
05:06You can stay in the government for some more time,
05:09but the results will be very bad,
05:12and you will have to pay a very heavy price for it.
05:17Hassan Ayub,
05:18this story must have passed from your point of view,
05:20you must have read Don,
05:22all the circles, 146, 147, 148,
05:25149, 150, 151,
05:27all the main circles of Lahore.
05:30The thing is that the case has come to the election tribunal.
05:34Now, how does the election tribunal take up this case?
05:37It could be Patan or Don Akhbar,
05:40they have their own research,
05:41they can have their own vice.
05:43Patan, before this,
05:44The other one can be ours too.
05:45Patan did nothing before this in 2018,
05:47this is the first time in 2024,
05:50they came and did this research,
05:51and these tribunals,
05:52and these forms 45,
05:54or forms 15 and 16,
05:55they didn't check them before this.
05:57Their experience is zero.
05:59They are learning now,
06:00Patan is gaining experience now.
06:02Now, Patan's credibility is really zero according to me.
06:04It's in the minus.
06:05It's in the minus, zero, zero.
06:07Because they haven't done any such work before this.
06:09This is the first time that they are sitting on the channels and talking,
06:12but it's all wrong,
06:14it's information.
06:15Before the election, they went to the PTA,
06:17their people were talking there,
06:20they were supporting the PTA.
06:22Who should comment on the election?
06:24Me, you, Patan, Fafan?
06:26We shouldn't comment,
06:27we should praise.
06:28When the matter is subjudiced,
06:29the matter went to the tribunal.
06:30No, no, this is not subjudice.
06:31The matter went to the tribunal,
06:33you yourself say that the matter is subjudice,
06:35don't talk about it.
06:36No, no, this is not subjudice,
06:37this is the mistake of the election commission,
06:40their mistakes,
06:41they should be highlighted.
06:41Whoever wants, can take the election commission to the court.
06:44Whoever wants, can take the election commission to the court,
06:47but they should sit and give a sweeping statement.