LAHORE: Election to various offices of the Lahore Press Club was postponed on Wednesday amid intermittent clashes between two rival groups Journalist and Progressive Panel over alleged bogus entries in the voters list.

The election commission, after consulting both the panels, postponed the annual polls for one month with a direction that the press club affairs would be run by an interim body in the meantime.

Differences on the composition of the interim setup were standing unresolved till the filing of this report.

The voting process was suspended for the first timein the morning when objections were raised on production of three different lists of new voters.

After omitting around 150 entries from the lists, the voting restarted only to be suspended again in the afternoon when frustrated over a long wait a large number of voters forced their entry into the polling station at Alhamra breaking down its wooden main entrance.

It was suspended yet again in the evening when an alleged bogus voter was caught. The resultant mayhem could not be controlled till 8pm and for the first time in the decades-old history of the press club polls the election commission, comprising senior most journalists, postponed the election for one month.