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LAHORE: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has raised concerns about the allotment of incorrect election symbols to two of its Punjab Assembly candidates and written to the Election Commission to fix the issue.<\/p>\n
In a letter, Senator Taj Haider, the official in charge of PPP\u2019s central election cell, informed the chief election commissioner that a returning officer had allotted the \u2018kettle\u2019 instead of the \u2018arrow\u2019 as an electoral symbol to Fayyaz Bhatti, the PPP\u2019s candidate for Lahore\u2019s provincial constituency PP-163.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am writing to you to express my deep concern over the irregularity in the allotment of election symbol to PPP candidate Muha\u00adm\u00adm\u00adad Fayyaz Bhatti from PP-163, Punjab,\u201d Mr Haider said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is learned that Muhammad Fayyaz Bhatti had submitted his PPP ticket to the concerned returning officer on Jan 12, 2024, but still the returning officer listed him as an independent candidate and allotted him the kettle as the election symbol instead of the arrow, which is the PPP\u2019s election symbol,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Similarly, another Pakistan Peoples Party candidate \u2014 Mujahid Islam, from the PP-119 constituency \u2014 has been allotted the \u201cwheelchair\u201d as an election symbol instead of the arrow, Senator Haider said in another letter to the chief election commissioner.<\/p>\n