ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leading in Azad Jammu &
Kashmir (AJK) Legislative Assembly with 29 seats after election on the
reserved seats and could form government alone.
Pakistan
Peoples Party (PPP) stands at 1st with 29 seats, Pakistan Muslim
League-Nawaz (PML-N) with 12 seats on 2nd position, All Jammu &
Kashmir Muslim Conference with 5 seats on 3rd position and Muttahida
Qaumi Movement (MQM) with 2 seats on 4th position, after elections on
reserved seats of Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) Legislative Assembly.
Resultantly,
PPP has become the main party having majority in the AJK Legislative
Assembly. Therefore, PPP could form a government in AJK alone without
any alliance. While PML-N would be a strong key opposition party in the
Legislative Assembly.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza
Gilani has felicitated the PPP candidates on winning the six out of
eight reserved seats in the elections of AJK Legislative Assembly here
on Sunday.
In his message of congratulations, the Prime
Minister said that the victory of PPP candidates in majority in the
elections was a manifestation of the confidence reposed by the people
in their policies.
He hoped that the newly elected members of
the AJK legislative Assembly will serve the people by discharging the
entrusted responsibilities with devotion, and national sprit for
solving their problems and ushering progress and prosperity of the
country. Online