Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan said all ruling parties have once again demonstrated their agenda of “muka muka” and joined hands to restrict the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) from implementing articles 62 and 63 of the constitution by blocking the election reforms bill aimed at holding free and fair elections.
“Asif Zardari’s Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) have once again united to block the election reforms bill because it will directly hit their interests and block entry of corrupt politicians in the electoral process,” said Khan while talking to a delegation from Dera Ghazi Khan, headed by Khawaja Mudassir Mehmood.
Khan said the ECP had forwarded an election reforms bill to the government to ensure free and fair elections, seeking 30 days for strict scrutiny of nomination papers of candidates but Law Minister Farooq H Naek refused to get the bill passed from the Parliament.
“If the PPP and PML-N had reservations over articles 62 and 63, they should have removed them from the constitution in the 18th or 19th amendments,” he said.
“However, since these articles are very much a part of the constitution, why are Sharif and Zaradri reluctant to get them implemented by the ECP,” he questioned.
“Though there’s nothing wrong with these reforms, the ruling parties have made an alliance explicitly to stop the ECP from blocking corrupt politicians,” he said.
The PTI chief said reluctance of ruling parties to pass the bill has proved that they are a cartel of tax evaders and public and utility banks’ defaulters. “They think that these reforms will block the nomination of their top leadership for their decades-long tax evasion. If the PPP and PML-N do not implement articles 62 and 63, they must be ready to face the consequences. If they have paid their taxes, they shouldn’t be worried about these reforms,” said Khan.
He said these corrupt ruling parties had also united for protecting bogus degree holding MPs after the judiciary had disqualified them.
“But their game is over now. Their match-fixing politics will be thrown out by the people of Pakistan in the upcoming elections. The nation is going to choose between parties of fake degree holders, tax evaders and the real representatives of people,” he said.
