As the date for the vote of confidence draws nearer, a tussle between Punjab’s ruling allies – the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) over the vote of confidence in Chief Minister Pervez Elahi. A clear crack appeared.
PTI Chairman Imran Khan has tasked the party’s senior leaders to ensure that the provincial chief executive takes the vote of confidence before January 11, but Chief Minister Elahi has rejected it saying that the vote of confidence is Governor Punjab Balighur Rehman’s order for “illegal”.
PTI Senior Vice President Fawad Chaudhry has said that the party wants the Chief Minister to take a vote of confidence before January 11 as the Lahore High Court will hear Elahi’s petition against the dismissal of the Chief Minister on the same day. The alliance intends to show the court that their chief minister has the confidence of the House.
But after Elahi’s reluctance to vote, sources told Geo News on Friday that the PTI chief had ordered party leaders to ensure voting and if anyone obstructed the dissolution of the Punjab Assembly. PTI legislators will resign from the assembly. Home
The warning from Imran comes at a time when CM Elahi, who had earlier said he would support the PTI chief’s decisions, now plans to stay in office longer than the former prime minister had planned.
Speaker Punjab Assembly Sabtain Khan has convened the meeting of the House on January 9, which was earlier scheduled to be held on January 11.
Although the Lahore High Court had restrained the Chief Minister from dissolving the Assembly, the Punjab Governor said that if the Chief Minister takes a vote of divine confidence, then it is his power to dissolve the legislature.
According to the report of JEE News, independent legislator Syeda Zahra Naqvi’s statement that she is an ally of PTI and not of Elahi has apparently created problems for the Chief Minister. has rebelled against the party’s decision to support the League. The leader
Imran Khan has no objection to my words.
Meanwhile, commenting on the political climate in the province, Chief Minister Elahi claimed that he says what he wants to the PTI chief and has no objection to it.
The Chief Minister of Punjab while addressing the convocation at Punjab University said that Imran Khan has no objection to my words because later he turned out to be right.
He further said that there was no shortage in the decisions taken by Khan Sahib. Imran Khan is a leader who does not fear, does not bend and does not sell. He is a true, upright man. But if something is wrong, I always express it to him,” Elahi added.
The Chief Minister further said that on the other hand, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz started propaganda against him by making fun of his sources of funding.
PML-G takes dollars abroad from here while Ishaq Dar brings them back. The provincial chief executive said that the federal government has created a storm of inflation which refuses to stop.
