Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervez Elahi on Sunday said he would “not wait even a minute” to dissolve the provincial assembly if PTI chairman Imran Khan asked him to.
“Imran Khan handed over the Punjab government [to me]. We stand by those we support,” the chief minister – whose party, the PML-Q, is an ally of the PTI – said in a video statement. said
The chief minister of Pakistan’s largest province has warned the Shehbaz Sharif-led coalition government at the center that if the PTI and its allies walk out of the assemblies, their “government, which stretches just 27 km. Yes, it will not last for the next 27 hours.”
پنجاب حکومت عمران خان کی امانت ہے۔ ہم وضع دار لوگ ہیں جس کے ساتھ چلتے ہیں اس کا ساتھ نہیں چھوڑتے۔ اسمبلیوں سے جب استعفے دئیے تو شہباز شریف کی 27 کلومیٹر کی حکومت 27 گھنٹے بھی نہیں چل سکے گی۔ عمران خان اسمبلیاں تو ڑنے کا کہیں گے تو ایک منٹ کی دیر نہیں ہوگی۔ #ImranKhan #Punjab pic.twitter.com/xHDHATucxJ
— Ch Parvez Elahi (@ChParvezElahi) November 27, 2022
The senior PML-Q leader added that Khan’s plan entered its “decisive phase” during a rally in Rawalpindi on Saturday and once the PTI and its allies started resigning from the assemblies. If they do, the government of Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) will start to collapse itself. .
Elahi’s statement came as Khan – who has ended the long march – told a charged rally in Pindi that his party had decided that he would no longer be part of the “corrupt political system”, and would quit all assemblies. .
“Instead of destruction and vandalism, we have decided to leave the assemblies and come out of the corrupt system in which the cases of powerful and billionaires are dismissed and the poor rot in jails,” he said.
Moving on, Elahi came down hard on the PML-N’s “show-off”, warning them that once the nationwide elections were held, they would face an unprecedented defeat that would be remembered by generations to come.
The Chief Minister Punjab claimed that Pakistan will be governed according to Islam and with each passing day his government will ensure that it initiates projects to benefit the common people.
صوبائی اسمبلیوں سے استعفے آتے ہی پی ڈی ایم کا جعلی اتحاد بھی انتشار کی شکل اختیار کرتا جائے گا. ن لیگ والے شعبدہ باز جھوٹ بولنے باز ہی نہیں آ رہے آپ کو سمجھ لگ جائے گی آپ کے ساتھ الیکشن میں وہ کچھ ہو گا کہ آپ کی پشتیں بھی یاد رکھیں گی.#PDM #NLeague
— Ch Parvez Elahi (@ChParvezElahi) November 27, 2022
Khan has postponed his long march to Islamabad, but has not announced when he will leave the assemblies. However, the PTI chief said he would consult on the date later.
The PTI began its long march to the federal capital on October 28 in an attempt to force the coalition government into early elections. On November 3, the march was abruptly halted after Khan was injured in an assassination attempt.
It was later restarted from the same location but led by PTI leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi. Khan then joined his supporters the day before, when he ended the march.
Taking to Twitter earlier today, the PTI chief said: “I want to thank all the people from all over Pakistan who came in such large numbers to our Rawalpindi Azadi March yesterday.”
He added that our movement will continue until we establish the rule of law and true freedom.
‘Flop Show’
In response to Khan’s threat, Home Minister Rana Sanaullah said the PTI chairman “cannot dissolve both [Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab] assemblies”.
During an Interview, he said that Khan will not be able to decide to dissolve the assemblies.
The PML-N leader further said that Tehreek-e-Insaaf cannot do so if no-confidence motion is presented.
Do they think that the opposition will remain vigilant? The Home Minister questioned that the elections should be held on time and the assemblies should remain intact.
Sanaullah also said that Khan’s decision to dissolve the assemblies was his “declaration of defeat”.
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister and PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari termed PTI’s march as a “face-saving flop show” as he claimed that the former prime minister failed to attract his supporters in large numbers. .
PTI facesaving flop show is anticlimactic. Unable to pull revolution crowds, failed at undermining appointments of new chiefs, frustrated, resorts to resignation drama. Imran demand from pindi is not azadi but to be reselected. How long will KP&Punjab be used as political props?
— BilawalBhuttoZardari (@BBhuttoZardari) November 26, 2022
“Failed to pull the revolutionary crowd, failed to undermine the appointment of new chiefs, frustrated, pretended to resign. Imran’s demand from Pindi is not freedom but re-election. How long will KP and Punjab be political props?” will be used?” he wrote.
