The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) are seriously considering launching a joint agitation movement against the Punjab government, Pakistan Today learnt on Wednesday.
Sources privy to the scenario told Pakistan Today that both allies had started consultations to settle details for the joint movement against the PML-Nawaz (PML-N)’s provincial government keeping in view the hustle bustle in Punjab after the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI)’s successful power show in Lahore.
The sources said further that a final announcement regarding the movement would be made very soon. A formal contact between the PML-Q leadership and PPP-backed Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khosa was made on Wednesday at Governor’s House. Federal Senior Minister and PML-Q Punjab President Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi had a consultative meeting with the governor and discussed at length the strategy to exert pressure on the provincial government to hold local bodies elections in the province.
The political situation in Punjab and especially the upcoming Senate elections scheduled in March next year also came under discussion in the nearly two-hour meeting. Elahi and Khosa discussed various options for the Senate elections and their strategy in the provincial assembly.
They also talked about ways to force the PML-N government to immediately hold elections for local bodies, which has been delaying for some time now.
Both leaders agreed that the language used by Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif during the PML-N’s protest rally last week was against democratic norms and tested the limits of political tolerance. They said difference of opinion was the beauty of democracy and politics of principles.
Governor Khosa said elements who had surfaced under undemocratic and non-political forces must understand the real spirit of politics and democracy.
He said that people were sick of this type of politics and undemocratic attitude of certain elements, owing to which the Lahoris completely rejected the PML-N rally.
