Following the departure of senior and prominent party leader Javed Hashmi for the PTI, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz President Nawaz Sharif has decided to initiate meetings with all party members of national and provincial assemblies to hear out their grievances and to try finding a way to address them.
A high level meeting of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz was held on Monday under the chairmanship of party chief Nawaz Sharif that was attended by Shahbaz Sharif, Opposition Leader Nisar Ali Khan, Senator Parvaiz Rasheed, Zulifiqar Khosa, Khurram Dastagir and Khwaja Saad Rafique among others. According to sources, several preemptive measures were devised by the PML-N to prevent such an occurrence in the future. “New strategies have been devised to clear out reservations and extended, as well as maintain, healthy relations with party members, workers, MNAs, MPA, and ministers, ensuring that incidents like Hashmi leaving the party do not happen again,” the sources said.
They said keeping in mind the changes in political dynamics, the party was planning an intense makeover in terms of restructuring. Besides, the arrangements of the party rally being held in Gujranwala were also reviewed. Addressing the meeting, Nawaz said national issues like inflation and unemployment would be dealt with on emergency basis. He said the current government had failed in meeting the needs of the public and should not toss its failure on others. Nawaz said had the government rectified its act, the country would never have been this way.
He said the PML-N would not let the incompetence of the current government affect democracy and any unconstitutional step would be stopped with full force. He also welcomed the army’s statement to clear the political air. The PML-N meeting also decided to hold its general election in party’s provincial chapters. The party’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter election will be held on December 28, Sindh election on January 2, Punjab election on January 4 and Balochistan election on January 6.
With Hashmi gone, Nawaz scrambles to make corrections
