{"id":59859,"date":"2024-01-22T17:59:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T12:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=59859"},"modified":"2024-01-22T17:59:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T12:59:19","slug":"pti-candidate-withdraws-in-favour-of-maryam-nawaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/pti-candidate-withdraws-in-favour-of-maryam-nawaz\/","title":{"rendered":"PTI candidate withdraws in favour of Maryam Nawaz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Breakthrough\u2019 for PML-N<br \/>\nLahore: In a \u201cbreakthrough\u201d for the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz ahead of the nationwide polls, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidate Mehr Muhammad Waseem announced withdrawing in favour of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senior Vice President Maryam Nawaz from Lahore\u2019s NA-119 on Sunday.<br \/>\nThe election campaigns of all political parties equipped with mollifying manifestos and promises are in full swing across the country ahead of the February 8 vote. PML-N and PPP are eyeing the premier\u2019s office and desperately swaying voters to elect them to power.<br \/>\nThe PTI ticket holder met Maryam and announced to withdraw in her favour besides announcing to join PML-N along with his supporters.<br \/>\nThe meeting was also attended by PML-N central leaders including Senator Pervaiz Rasheed, Marriyum Aurangzeb, Ali Pervaiz Malik, Khawaja Imran Nazir, and others.<br \/>\nMehr will formally announce his association with the Nawaz-led party in an election rally \u2014 scheduled for January 25 \u2014 led by Maryam. The PML-N chief organiser welcomed Mehr and his aides over joining her party.<br \/>\nMoreover, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) also suffered a blow in Lahore as its local officer bearers including the chairman, vice chairman, and zakat committee\u2019s head along with loyalists joined the Nawaz-led party today.<br \/>\nDuring the meeting, she said that more people have joined the PML-N convoy for Pakistan\u2019s progress and prosperity after the country suffered severe consequences due to the ineligible rulers from 2018 to 2022.<br \/>\nShe continued that the nation was fully aware of the politicians who served them well and those who followed the path of political vengeance. Maryam said that only Nawaz, Shehbaz, and PML-N workers have \u201cemerged victorious\u201d after facing tough times. The politico announced that her party prepared a comprehensive plan only focusing on serving the nation after being elected to power.<br \/>\nFormally launching the electioneering, Maryam also addressed the PML-N\u2019s election campaigners in the NA-119 constituency today in the presence of a large number of the central leaders, and office bearers workers.<br \/>\nShe said that she would take full responsibility for each family in her constituency. She also announced to meet the voters in Lahore\u2019s NA-119 on the 25th.<br \/>\nThe PML-N senior VP predicted that the \u201clion\u201d would be roaring across the country after the February 8 polls and no one would be able to defeat her party.<br \/>\nWith the party supremo back in Pakistan after nearly four years of exile, the PML-N believes it has got a much-needed boost \u2014 given the dismal performance during the 16-month tenure of the coalition government, headed by Shehabz.<br \/>\nThe party has fielded 208 candidates for the 266 National Assembly general seats up for grabs. Meanwhile, overall for the five legislatures, the PML-N has issued 671 tickets out of the 859 seats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Breakthrough\u2019 for PML-N Lahore: In a \u201cbreakthrough\u201d for the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz ahead of the nationwide polls, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidate Mehr Muhammad Waseem announced withdrawing in favour of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senior Vice President Maryam Nawaz from Lahore\u2019s NA-119 on Sunday. The election campaigns of all political parties equipped with mollifying manifestos and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":59872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59874,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59859\/revisions\/59874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}