ISLAMABAD: In a series of tweets on Tuesday, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan bashed the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) members of the National Assembly (NA) for rejecting the proposed amendment to the Elections Bill 2017.
The PTI chief castigated the ruling party parliamentarians for rejecting the important legal amendment “simply to allow NS [Nawaz Sharif] to remain as head of PML-N despite being disqualified from membership of Parliament under the Constitution,” adding that the responsible lawmakers “should hang their heads in shame.”
Today all PMLN members of the NA should hang their heads in shame for making a farce out of our democracy. They opposed an amendment to the election law, simply to allow NS to remain as head of PMLN despite being disqualified from membership of Parliament under the Constitution.
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) November 21, 2017
He added that the only purpose of PML-N parliamentarians was to “protect the Sharif’s mafia”. He said that to the lawmakers who helped to pass the bill, law and morality came only secondary to keeping their “corrupt” leader in power.
The PMLN MNAs also showed that their only purpose in the parliament is to protect the Sharif mafia’s corruption. In a democracy moral authority is a core principle. Today that was negated by PMLN which sought to place their corrupt ldr above all laws. https://t.co/ocLLmyLYgW
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) November 21, 2017
The PTI chief said that the rejection of the proposed amendment to the constitutional bill gave a terrible and a demoralising message to the nation, especially its youth.
What a terrible and demoralising message has gone out to the nation, esp the youth: that there is nothing wrong with being corrupt. https://t.co/5xiPmRhZje
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) November 21, 2017
Earlier, Pakistan Peoples Party’s leader Naveed Qamar had proposed the amendment to the Elections Bill 2017, seeking a disallowance of disqualified parliamentarians from heading political parties. The National Assembly on Tuesday rejected the proposed amendment with a majority of 163 votes to 98.
