Three seats of the National Assembly in the federal capital are up for grabs as none of the mainstream political parties appears to be in a position to clinch a majority here in the Feb 8 general elections.
Uncertainty prevails in the capital about the success of three mainstream political parties — PML-N, PTI and PPP due to their internal rifts, ‘promoting the hereditary politics’, fielding of apolitical figures and trusting already tested/defeated candidates.
On the other hand, it has been observed that due to unprecedented food inflation, high rocketing gas and electricity bills, rent of houses and unaffordable school/college fees for their children, people in the city have so far disassociated themselves from the elections as they believed that elite class has made elections a source of power politics just to satisfy their designs and not to address people’s problems.
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