SHIKARPUR: The district returning officer of the NA-202 (Shikarpur) constituency on Tuesday declared Pakistan Peoples Party`s Aftab Shaban Mirani successful af ter the rechecking of rejected votes of seven polling stations.

Shikarpur District and Sessions Judge Amjad Ali Kazi, the DRO, rechecked the rejected votes of the polling stations concerned, as the runnerup candidate, Dr Ibrahim Jatoi of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, had filed an appeal before the Election Commission of Pakistan in this regard.

Dr Jatoi had won the May 2013 general election on NA-202 after he secured 54,633 votes against his rival Mr Mirani, who got 53,381 votes.

There were total 216 polling stations and the PML-N candidate won the election with a lead of 1,252 votes.

Mr Mirani challenged the results of 21 polling stations before the Sukkur election tribunal requesting it to order re-election on 21 polling stations, as he got 53,008 votes against Dr Jatoi`s 39,113 votes in the remaining 195 polling stations.

On May 6, 2014, the re-election was held on 21 polling stations and MrMirani was declared successful with a narrow margin of 233 votes. His total votes were 54,113 against Dr Jatoi`s 53,780 votes.

The defeated candidate, Dr Jatoi, filed an appeal before the ECP for rechecking of the rejected votes on 21 polling stations. However, the ECP ordered re-checking of the rejectedvotes of seven polling stations.

The re-checking of the votes was conducted on Tuesday at the district court by the DRO, District and Sessions Judge Amjad Ali Kazi, in the presence ofboth the candidates.

Mr Mirani was again declared successful from NA-202 after the recheckingofthevotes.