Twenty-nine Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) members are still enjoying privileges as members of the Punjab Assembly (MPAs) despite tendering their resignations in the assembly.
Sources in Punjab Assembly told a private news channel that salaries are being transferred in the PTI members’ accounts as their resignations have not yet been formally accepted. Therefore, members are still enjoying the perks. PTI member and Punjab Opposition Leader Mehmoodur Rasheed has still not returned his official car.
Following the resignation of PTI’s National Assembly members, the party’s MPAs from Punjab also tendered resignations from their seats and added that the PTI would issue a white paper against the “dismal performance” of the provincial government.
The resignations have come as PTI is engaged in protests and sit-ins against the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif-led government over alleged rigging in the 2013 general elections.
As of now, PTI and the government are engaged in talks to broker a settlement over the political impasse that has gripped the country for weeks.