The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) intra-party polls were declared “unconstitutional” by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), which also removed the party’s famous bat electoral symbol. The case challenging the ECP’s ruling was dismissed by the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday. A reserved ruling was given by LHC Justice Jawad Hassan, who also ruled that PTI leader Umar Aftab Dhillon’s case was inadmissible. The PTI leader begged the court on Wednesday to overturn the commission’s ruling and force it to post the PTI’s certificate for the intra-party poll on its website in an effort to reclaim his party’s electoral symbol in Punjab. The petitioner argued that the symbol was unlawfully removed because intra-party polling was outside the election body’s purview.