The purpose of delaying elections was a plan to steal the people’s mandate, PPP leader Faisal Karim Kundi has claimed, as the Bhutto-ruled party reiterates its demand for announcement of the election date from the polls overseer.

In a statement issued on Sunday, he lamented that the Election Commission of Pakistan still has not announced the date for elections.

“Polls cannot be delayed on the wishes of two political parties,” the PPP leaders said, “the ECP is bound by the Constitution and not by two personalities.”

His comments to some extent were the same as what PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said earlier this week. The scion of Bhutto dynasty had said that democracy and elections in Pakistan have been put on hold for one man’s return to the country.

On Saturday, PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan after ending four years of self-imposed exile. In his address, he shunned revenge and called for working together to resolve all issues.

In the recent past, the JUI-F has expressed concerns over holding elections in January 2024, saying that it would not be possible for the people in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan to cast votes.

Kundi warned that the country should head for polls instead of “experimenting with selection over and over again”.

He said: “It is only the people’s choice who they want to choose and who they want to reject.”