Shahbaz restrains party leaders from making comments
M RAFIQUE GORAYA
LAHORE: After the worst blow to Nawaz Sharif in his three decades checkered political life on Monday, his younger brother President PML-N and Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has stopped the party leaders and office-bearers from giving any sort of comments about the members quitting the party.
In a statement issued here on Monday after quitting of eight PML_N lawmakers, including five MNAs and three MPAs, for creating a separate province for Southern Punjab, Shahbaz said that all the office-bearers of the party and government leaders should avoid issuing statements in this regard.
He said that matter regarding the members quitting the party will be discussed in the party meeting and a suitable strategy will be finalized.
He further stressed that issuance of statements about the members leaving the party should be immediately stopped.
Earlier Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb had lashed out at those who left the ruling PML-N. She alleged that those who left the ruling party were temporary who used to change their loyalties after seeing the direction of the air.
Senator Asif Kirmani, Special Assistant for Political Affairs to Nawaz Sharif said that those law makers who have lost hope of getting PML-N ticket in up-coming general elections are leaving the ruling party.
According to political sources in coming days 40 PML-N lawmakers would be parting ways with the ruling party to launch a mass movement to make southern Punjab a separate province “The creation of a separate province for southern Punjab is a one-point agenda,” they added
Meanwhile, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf spokesman Fawad Chaudhry has said that ruling Nawaz league would face defeat in the upcoming general elections.
Addressing a press conference, he said that the people of Punjab were not satisfied with the performance of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif. The PTI spokesperson said that the PML-N will not be different from the Muttahida Qaumi Movemnet (MQM).
“People who were quitting the PML-N were taking the right decision,” he added.
