[citation needed] Raja is the son-in-law of Saeed Mehdi; a former top bureaucrat who served as Principal Secretary to PM Nawaz Sharif.

In the final year of MBBS, he migrated to King Edward Medical College, Lahore and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Medicine.

The Punjab Assembly on 31 July 2022 passed a resolution against him and demanded his resignation as a chief of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).

[14] The resolution stated that: "The only way leading to the country's progress or to pull it out from the prevailing imbroglio is to hold fair and free election.

[17] These ROs and DROs are engaged in all stages of the electoral process: from screening applicants to consolidation of vote counts, and, finally, provisionally notifying winning candidates.

[19] On 14 December 2023, Justice Ali Baqar Najafi of the Lahore High Court suspended the Election Commission's decision on the petition of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) that questioned the apparent bias of the appointed bureaucrats.

[20] However, the next day, a three-member bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, consisting of Qazi Faez Isa, Mansoor Ali Shah, and Sardar Tariq Masood, set aside this ruling and allowed the DROs and ROs to be notified from the bureaucracy, meanwhile stopping LHC from undertaking further proceedings on the petition citing over-reach of authority.

[21] On 30 December 2023, these ROs rejected a majority of the nomination papers filed by the leadership of PTI, including those of the party's chief, Imran Khan.

[24][25][26] When the general elections were conducted on 8 February 2024, some of these ROs were alleged to have tampered with provisional consolidated counts (Form 47) to make PTI candidate lose seats.