LAHORE, April 26: PTI workers caught on Friday city district government officials red-handed removing banners and flexes of Dr Yasmin Rashid, who is contesting against PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif in NA-120.

PTI candidate Dr Yasmin Rashid said her election banners and flexes had continuously being removed for the last one week despite the fact that she had paid fee to the Parks and Horticulture Authority.

She said the PTI had lodged a formal complaint with the DCO and Election Commission’s Punjab office, but the police did not arrest any miscreant.

On Friday morning, Dr Yasmin said the party workers spotted two PHA officials -- Farooq Ghous Rana and Muhammad Hafeez -- removing banners and flexes and putting them in a government vehicle. Both the accused were handed over to the DCO office.

Dr Yasmin told Dawn that PHA Director Mudassar allegedly threatened her as well as her supporters and later at a meeting at the DCO office said she should spare a mistake.

She said she and her supporters and workers never took law in their hands and had paid the fee to the PHA as per the Election Commission code of conduct, but PHA workers were removing her and PTI PP-140 candidate Zubair Khan Niazi’s banners and flexes.

“The PTI is meeting complete injustice in its campaign against PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif. We are using hard earned money, while the PML-N is using money plundered from the national exchequer,” she said in a harsh tone.

Dr Yasmin said the PTI would never allow any party, particularly the PML-N, to do pre-poll rigging in Lahore. “We will not tolerate any goonda elements to sabotage our election campaign that has reached door-to-door in the NA-120 constituency,” she asserted.

She said that she wanted to warn all those government officials who were on the payroll of the Raiwind palace to stop using cheap tactics and let the PML-N chief contest election in a free and transparent manner.

She said the Election Commission should also take notice of such instances that could be regarded as pre-poll rigging.

She said that PTI workers and Tabdeeli Razakars (change volunteers) were ready to face any kind of circumstances and check any rigging attempt even on polling day on May 11 and make leaders to lick the dust.

Later, Dr Yasmin addressed a women convention in Rajgarh and a rally in Anarkali.