ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) has announced to stage a long march towards Islamabad on March 26 in a bid to topple Prime Minister Imran Khan-led government, announced by JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman.
“Rallies from all over the country will march towards Islamabad on March 26,” he said while addressing a press conference after an hours-long meeting.
He also said that the PDM had decided to contest the Senate elections jointly. “there will be a joint strategy for it and we will not compete against each other. We will field joint candidates,” Maulana Fazl added.
The 11-party alliance also rejected the open ballot method of Senate polls and the constitutional amendment to bring it about. “The Opposition believes in the overall package of election reforms,” he added.
“It seems as if PTI does not believe in its members and the PTI leadership wishes to make such unsavoury people senators that their own members are not willing to vote for them,” Fazlur Rehman remarked.
Talking about inflation, he said the government has ‘illegally’ increased the prices of electricity, gas and petroleum and “made the lives of people difficult”. “We will continue to stand by the people shoulder-to-shoulder against these illegitimate rulers,” the PDM chief added.
He further said the opposition also rejected the formation of the commission to probe the Broadsheet scandal and considers it an attempt to “conceal their corruption”.
Fazlur Rehman that the way the development funds are being distributed, it seems as if Imran Khan has forgotten how “he would consider this bribery” in the past.
The PDM chief said that in the foreign funding case against the PTI, 23 accounts were brought to attention, but 18 are being hidden. “The talk of an open trial of the matter was nothing but a drama and has no standing,” he added.
The announce was made following a meeting in Islamabad chaired by PDM President Maulana Fazlur Rehman which had considered three options for the next phase of its anti-government campaign – resignations from assemblies, long march and no-confidence motion to send federal and Punjab government packing.
