AJK CEC reassures LG polls to be held on November 27.

MUZAFFARABAD -- Azad Jammu and Kashmir Chief Election Commissioner ((AJK-CEC) Justice retired Abdul Rasheed Sulehria on Tuesday, while brushing aside rumours about the postponement of local government elections, assured that polls would be held on November 27 as per the previously announced schedule and all arrangements for in that regard had been made.

Leading a presser here accompanied by a senior member of the commission, Raja Farooq Niaz, he said the required funds had been provided by the government and federal interior minister had assured him to provide 17,000 security personnel to maintain law and order during the polling.

Rumors were spreading all over AJK that the commission was going to approach Supreme Court to get its order for the conduction of LG polls before November 30 amended on the grounds that the federal government had expressed inability to provide security personnel due to reasons.

'Government has provided us hundred percent required funds of which 280 million rupees have been spent so far and I, personally, talked to interior minister Rana Sanaullah, who assured me to provide security personnel to maintain law and order during the polling,' Sulehria maintained.

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