Special Assis
tant to the Prime Minister on Youth Affairs, Usman Dar Sunday said the governmen
t was giving sanctity to vote in the upcoming Senate elections through show of hands or open balloting.
I
t was a great chance for all the political parties to conduct the Senate polls throug
h open voting to wipe out horse trading incidents from it, he said tal
king to a private news channel.
He said
the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government would move a constitutional amendment bill in
the Parliament soon to make open voting in the senate elections.
Usman Dar said i
t was mentioned in the Charter of Democracy (CoD) that the senate polls should be conducted throug
h open balloting. The Pakistan Peoples’ Party and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz had introduced the horse-trading politics in the senate elections in the past, he added.