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Published 29 Jan, 2024 02:00pm

READ: Islamabad set to be ‘uphill battle’ for major political parties

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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