Prime Minister Imran Khan said that in Balochistan people are being offered Rs500m to Rs700m for a single vote in the Senate elections.
He was talking to the media in Kallar Syedan on Wednesday.
I have also been offered a Senate seat for money, he remarked. “Those who wanted to bribe me approached me through direct and indirect means.”
The premier said that the PML-N and PPP had agreed on open balloting in the Charter of Democracy. “I had endorsed PML-N ‘s demand for an open ballot.”
Related: PM Khan removes KP minister for trading his Senate vote
Prime Minister Imran Khan ordered on Tuesday the removal of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Law Minister Sultan Mohammad Khan. The order comes a day after a video of him and other lawmakers receiving money for their votes in the Senate election went viral.
The video aired on ARY News showed some former and incumbent KP lawmakers receiving money ahead of the 2018 Senate Election.
Later that day, Former PTI MPA Ubaidullah Mayar accused former KP chief minister Pervez Khattak of fixing the last Senate election in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Mayar confirmed that he and other party lawmakers received bribes from Senate candidates in the 2018 election of the upper house.
