ISLAMABAD: The Opposition leaders, under the banner of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), have snubbed the lower house session, saying that the “votes Prime Minister Imran Khan had received today have no standings”.
Speaking to the media in Sukkur hours after the National Assembly session concluded, PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz has asserted that for her the people had taken the decision when Yousuf Raz Gillani was voted for Senator.
“The votes you received today have no standing since your members of National Assembly (MNAs) were pressured to vote for you,” the PML-N leader added.
Criticizing the premier, Maryam Nawaz said that PM Imran keeps repeating that PTI’s 16 lawmakers cheated on the party by voting for opposition candidate but still goes to the same MNAs for a vote of confidence.
Referring to the scuffle between PTI and PML-N leaders outside the parliament today (Saturday), Maryam Nawaz drew similarities between the PTI campaign and the attack on the US Capitol.
She regretted that the PTI supporters resorted to using violence against a woman parliamentarian and manhandled Ahsan Iqbal. “PML-N will not forget what happened today,” Maryam added.
Taking over the presser, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto said that politics is also the art of making the impossible, possible. “We have made it evident how fragile the National Assembly is, how fragile the government is, how fragile the puppet is,” he added.
The PPP chairman further said this one Senate election has proved that the premier has lost. Bilawal called PM Imran as a ‘grumpy old man’, saying that even the National Assembly had rejected Imran Khan and the puppet government.
“As the leader of the house it was PM Imran’s duty to condemn what happened outside the parliament but he did not,” Bilawal said adding that despite all the hue and cry Yousaf Raza Gillani is now a member of the Senate.
Meanwhile, JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman announced that the opposition rejects the confidence vote cast in favour of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Speaking to the media in Sukkur, Rehman said the Constitution clearly stated that the president can summon a session “if he believes that the prime minister does not hold majority”.
“This was not a confidence vote. We know which agencies watched the members of the assembly the entire night. [We know] who knocked on the doors of each member to ensure they were present,” he added.
