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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) vice president Maryam Nawaz has rejected the allegations made by government ministers that the Senate elections were rigged, asking the government whether the recent by-elections were also rigged or not.
“With my head bowed in humiliation, I say that money did not prevail in Senate elections]. Rather, the PML-N’s ticket prevailed,” the PML-N vice president said while addressing a general council meeting of the party.
Maryam Nawaz claimed that everyone knew this was the first and last time PM Imran Khan had gotten elected to power. “You (Imran Khan) and your MNAs and MPAs know, you have no future and you have no party,” she added.
She also thanked the party’s lawmakers for voting for PPP’s Yousaf Raza Gilani — the PDM’s joint candidate — during the Senate elections. “I pay tribute to all 83 parliamentarians who accepted Nawaz Sharif’s narrative,” she added.
Maryam further said that the prime minister knew, right from the very beginning, that he was headed for defeat in the Senate elections. “Therefore, the premier tried to introduce ordinances and had dragged the Supreme Court when it came to the Senate elections,” she added.
Referring to 2018 Senate elections, she said, “Where was your democracy, when you and your selectors rigged the Senate elections in 2018 when Bizenjo tried to become the Senate chairperson and despite Opposition parties have more numbers, lost it.”
Taunting the prime minister, she said that how could PM Imran seek a vote of confidence from his own people after accusing them of selling out for money. “Whenever the upcoming polls are held, the PML-N will sweep them,” she claimed.