People won't elect PML-N in next elections

PPP leader and former federal law minister, Senator Dr Babar Awan, on Sunday said the people would not elect the PML-N in the next general election because of their animosity towards democracy and said the PPP would complete its five-year constitutional term and form the government after the 2013 general polls.

Addressing a public meeting at Dhanda near New Muree, he strongly criticised the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Punjab government, saying their leadership was upset due to an imminent defeat in the Senate and general elections and were thus talking about the dissolution of the provincial assembly.

Awan said leaders of the "Naraz League," which held a sit-in against the democratic government, had gone to Jeddah under a deal with Musharraf and remained silent during his regime. He said the princes of Takht-i-Lahore would once again leave for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, after their defeat in the 2013 election.

Awan asked why the so-called lovers of democracy had not staged a single sit-in during the nine-year-long tenure of Musharraf. He added that the Senate election would be held in March next year and no assembly would be dissolved before then.

Awan said the talk of dissolving the assembly was "mere propaganda by the loyalists of PML-N leaders to hoodwink the people," but they would not succeed in their designs. Awan said the PML-N had cheated the parties of the APDM (All Parties Democratic Movement) by contesting the election in 2008. "The PML-N leadership backed away from its words and left Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf, Jamaat-i-Islami and Mahmood Achakzai in the lurch," Awan said.

"Sharifs' plan to dissolve the Punjab Assembly is a bid to break the electoral college of Senate but this plan has miserably failed. "The people will not elect them in the next general election because of their animosity towards democracy."

Babar Awan said that the rulers of Takhat-i-Lahore had created a number of problems in the Punjab province and embezzled huge funds in the name of 'Sasti Roti', development, Ashiana Housing Scheme and anti-dengue spray. "This entire drama is being staged to loot public money and the government's financial resources," he added.