LAHORE: LCCI Progressive Group and Customs Agents Alliance Vice Chairman Muhammad Amjad Chaudhry has claimed that the alliance has received a rousing welcome in all the market of the City and will make a clean sweep in the election with the grace of Allah Almighty.
He was talking exclusively to Customs Today here at his office on Jail Road.
Amjad said that he had been campaigning for PIAF-Founder Alliance for the past 18 years but he never witnessed such a red-carpet welcome which the LCCI Progressive Group and Customs Agents Alliance had received.
He said that there was not a single market in Lahore where they went for electioneering and the traders had not showered rose petals upon members of the alliance.
To a question, he said that he defected PIAF-Founder Alliance due to rising corrupt practices in the Chamber.
He expressed the hope that his alliance, with the grace of Allah Almighty, would secure a landslide victory, saying that divine help would playing a decisive role in the alliance victory.
He claimed that his alliance enjoyed overwhelming support of traders and industrialists which would play a decisive role in the politics of the LCCI.
He stated that he had brought with him 627 votes of his clearing agents and 180 votes corporate class which would rope in more and more support to secure a convincing win in the election.
“Casting fake votes is out of question as I have spent a long time with PIAF and knows all ins and outs of LCCI elections,” Amjad stated, adding that democratic values would be very well taken care of and no compromise would be made on the prestige of the chamber on the polling days.
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