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Punjab Assembly would vote against Parvez Elahi
In the run-off election for Punjab chief minister, which will take place today, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Thursday said that 50 PTI MPs in the Punjab Assembly would vote against Parvez Elahi, the party’s nominee against PML-N’s Shehbaz Hamza Shehbaz.
After the federal cabinet meeting, Mr. Sanaullah stated at a news conference that it is conceivable for PTI members who are “intelligent” and whose “conscience is alive” to dispute the choice of Mr. Elahi as the nominee.
PTI chairman Imran Khan had campaigned against Mr. Elahi
The minister claimed that PTI chairman Imran Khan had campaigned against Mr. Elahi and referred to him as “the worst dacoit of Punjab” and was now pleading with his party to support him.
The minister claimed that the legislators’ unease with Mr. Elahi’s threat to “instantly dissolve the assembly” in response to Mr. Khan’s orders was a sign of the importance he places on the body.
While acknowledging that his party is “in communication with everyone” as it is their “political and democratic right,” the minister denied PTI’s accusations that PML-N was “buying” party members.
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Mr. Sanaullah reminded the PTI chairman of how independent candidates were pulled into his party’s fold after the 2018 elections while stating that the PML-N “despises the politics of horse dealing.
“Whose money was spent on the individuals you invited to join your party [PTI] following the 2018 elections. Who made the investment in it?” He questioned Mr. Khan, who has claimed that the PML-N is using money to buy the votes of PTI members. “Whose jet was utilised [to carry people]?”
The PML-N will not engage in “buying and selling of votes,” Mr. Sanaullah continued, despite the fact that the party believes Mr. Elahi “neither has the right nor the capacity to become the chief minister.”
The setback is “not reflective of the PML-N’s popularity,” according to Mr. Sanaullah, the president of the PML-N’s Punjab segment. He also justified his party’s recent humiliation in the by-polls.
