Jailed former Pakistan leader Imran Khan will return to the post of Prime Minister again, his party’s senior member Faisal Javed claimed on Monday as allegations of massive rigging of the elections shook the country, amid public admission of vote manipulation by an election official.

Speaking after securing a transit bail from the Peshawar High Court (PHC) in a case, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senator said that party chief Khan would be contesting elections from the Mianwali constituency.

“And God willing, he will become the Prime Minister of Pakistan again,” the Dawn newspaper quoted him as saying. The nomination papers of the 71-year-old former Prime Minister Khan were rejected for two National Assembly constituencies in Lahore and Mianwali districts of the Punjab province for the February 8 elections.

Khan, who is in jail, has been barred from contesting elections. While independent candidates backed by Khan’s PTI won the most number of seats in Parliament in the polls, the PML-N and the PPP have announced that they will form a coalition government.