Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-N) President Ch Shujat Hussain has said that his party rejects the government bill for electoral reforms, till the required reforms for making next elections transparent and clean, we will not sign the government’s draft bill.
In a statement issued here on Thursday, Ch Shujat said that there was nothing new in the bill which the government wanted to present in the parliament in the name of electoral reforms, basic thing was that in the present system of Election Commission the status of the chief election commissioner was only in the name and he has no powers, he was bound by the majority opinion of the remaining members of the Election Commission meaning that if majority members of the commission declare any winning assembly candidate as defeated then the chief election commissioner cannot provide relief to the winning assembly candidate.
He said further it was regrettable that the Parliamentary Committee for Electoral Reforms has so far held 100 meetings on which Rs 100 crore have been spent but the result was zero, it was also not comprehensible that proceedings of these meetings have been kept in camera i.e. secret as if the parliamentary committee was not doing electoral reforms but nuclear reforms, Pakistan Muslim League demands that entire proceedings of the parliamentary committee till now should be made public so that the people should know that what the government is going to play with the nation in the name of electoral reforms.
Ch Shujat Hussain said that Pakistan Muslim League (PML) was being represented in the parliamentary committee by Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed, who is in Indonesia these days, and he has directed him that no PML representative will sign the government bill.