ISLAMABAD: In response to the election rigging allegations by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senator Irfan Siddiqui challenged the former ruling party’s lawmakers to quit the assemblies and start a protest movement if the 2024 elections were rigged. “You [PTI lawmakers] are part of this set-up,” said Siddiqui in a statement on Monday, adding: “[…] enjoying perks and privileges [after reaching the parliament] through the same elections.” His statement came after top leaders of the opposition party urged the judiciary to expedite cases related to rigging in the 2024 nationwide polls and the judiciary-centric 26th Constitutional Amendment besides rejecting the election results, again. The demands were made at a joint press conference conducted by PTI’s top leaders, Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, Omar Ayub Khan, Shibli Faraz, and Salman Akram Raja in Islamabad. Siddiqui was of the view that in principle, election [results] should not be accepted if rigging is alleged, in the same manner that the Pakistan National Alliance (MNA) rejected the 1977 poll results. The leaders of the Imran Khan-founded party have all the perks and benefits after being elected to the national and provincial assemblies, under the same elections that they claim were rigged and have formed their government in a province, he added. The senator further said that the PTI lawmakers had signed [on the bill] to raise their salaries — referring to the Members of Parliament Salaries and Allowances (Amendment) Bill 2025, which sailed through the National Assembly with a majority vote earlier this month. Pointing towards the PTI’s government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the PML-N senator .questioned whether the polls [in KP] were organised by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja or “some angels descended from heaven”.