KARACHI: Two advisors to Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah have resigned from their positions on Sunday to contest the upcoming LG polls.
Chief Minister special advisors Abdullah Murad and Arsalan Sheikh resigned from their position. While at least 946 candidates from 14 districts had been elected unopposed in the first phase of the LG polls in Sindh.
Among the 946, 135 had been elected as Chairman, and Vice-Chairman, while the election will be contested on the remaining 752 Chairman and Vice-Chairman seats. While 107 out of 794 district council seats had been filled unopposed, the remaining will be decided via elections.
While 622 seats out of a total of 3548 general ward counsellors had been filled unopposed. PPP has a stronghold in the 14 provinces the LG polls will be held in the first phase but the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has joined hands with the GDA to give a strong contest to the PPP.