LAHORE: PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif has said it is the only political party that conducted parliamentary board’s meetings for 86 hours from June 4 to 11.

“Each candidate was interviewed during the meetings in order to make the process of awarding tickets transparent and democratic. On the one hand, people can see our performance, but on the other one party awarded a ticket to a candidate who passed away a year ago and the other party awarded a ticket to a woman PML-N ticket holder,” Mr Sharif said here on Wednesday.

The parliamentary board, he said, held hundreds of interviews of aspirants who submitted their applications for tickets. “All are equal in our party. The parliamentary board did not prefer anyone and I too appeared before it to be interviewed as aspirant for the ticket,” he said adding former premier Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Maryam Nawaz, Hamza Shahbaz and other senior leadership also appeared before the parliamentary board for interviews.