ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Thursday said that not just five but 50 members of PTI may go against Pervaiz Elahi in Chief Minister Punjab Election on Friday.
Addressing a press conference, he said that if Punjab Assembly (PA) members were sensible and their “conscience was alive”, they would never vote for PML-Q leader Pervaiz Elahi in the chief minister’s election on Friday.
He indicated that any of the MPAs not showing up for the elections would be due to “Elahi’s incompetence”. “He is the same man who was once called a dacoit by Imran Khan.
“In Elahi’s eyes, the value of the assembly is such that he has said he won’t think twice if Imran Khan asks him to dissolve the assemblies,” the PML-N leader said.
“This matter is being discussed among the MPAs and it is possible that not just five but 50 members, on the basis of their political awareness, would either vote against him or stay [away].”
The minister rejected the PTI’s claims that PML-N was “buying” its party members. “We were never involved in such politics and would never indulge in it in the future.”
However, he continued, “we are connecting with people and this is our right”.
Moreover, talking about Elahi’s petition in the Supreme Court, Sanaullah said that had he been summoned to court, he would have told the honorable judges that the PTI was a party of liars.
