ISLAMABAD: Opposition parties are in action against Prime Minister Imran Khan, and have been calling his remarks about selling votes in the Senate Election “Absurd”. Following the setback in the previous election Imran Khan has also accused ECP of supporting those who cheated in the election.
The opposition alliance, Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), on Thursday challenged Prime Minister Imran Khan to identify those MNAs of the ruling alliance who had allegedly ditched him and sold their votes in the March 3 Senate Elections and take action against them, instead of seeking a vote of confidence from the same members.
“Imran Khan has said on national media that his party members have sold their votes. Imran Khan used to say that in the past they had sacked 20 members from the party in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. If he still stands by his words and if he is speaking the truth then I challenge him to tell the names of those MNAs and remove them from the parliament,” said Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari while talking to reporters after his meeting with Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) vice-president Maryam Nawaz along with a party delegation, hours after the prime minister’s address to the nation.
Earlier, in Islamabad, Ms. Nawaz had attended a meeting of the general council of her party which was also addressed by PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif through video link from London, in which he once again delivered a hard-hitting speech and accused the “undemocratic forces” and “violators of the constitution” of “imposing an inexperienced and incompetent person on the nation” through fraudulent elections in 2018.
During the news conference with Mr. Bhutto-Zardari, Ms. Nawaz said that on one hand, the prime minister was dubbing his party members as corrupt and thieves while on the other he was planning to seek a vote of confidence from the same members.
