The Chairman of Pakistan People’s Party, Bilawal BhuttoZardari, has said that the opposition would try to get elected its nominee as new chairman of the Senate of Pakistan because the majority party in the upper house has the right to bring its own Senate chairman.
The PPP chairman stated this as he addressed a press conference here at the media cell of the People’s Party along with newly-elected senators of the party from Sindh. Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah was also present on the occasion. Ten senators-elect ofPPP in Sindh were elected in the Senate elections held the previous day.
Bilawal said that the majority political party of the Senate was not the Pakistan Muslim League (N) but it was the People’s Party as senators in the Punjab were elected independently, without any party affiliation and were yet to join any political party. Bilawal challenged the PML-N to get its candidate elected for the slot of the Senate chairman. He asked how the PTI senator got success from Punjab.
He said if the PML-N thought that it was the biggest political party in the upper house of parliament, then it had every right to get its nominee elected as the chairman of the Senate. The PML-N should make efforts to this effect as nobody is stopping it from doing so, he said.
The PPP chairman said it was better that the chairman of Senate did belong to the opposition for the sake of check and balance on the system of governance as the Senate had to oversee the role of the National Assembly. He said that except for the PML-N, all the political parties having representation in the Senate would be consulted by the PPP for bringing an opposition-backed chairman of the Senate.
He said it was wrong to level the allegation of “horse-trading” against the People’s Party in the Senate elections. He said that Sindh CM had made efforts to secure victory in the Senate elections.
He said that lawmakers of the MQM didn’t accept the leadership of their own party as time for the MQM, which had been levelling the allegation of horse-trading just to cover up its own internal rift, was over.
He said that it was better for the MQM to concentrate on resolving its internal issues instead of pointing fingers at others. He said that allegations of horse-trading did surface whenever any poll took place during the era of PML-N. The provincial election commissioner had termed the Senate elections held in Sindh as most transparent and fair in the entire country.
He said that there should not be doubt about the transparency of Senate polls in the province after unequivocal viewpoint expressed about the polling process by the provincial election commissioner, Sindh.
Bilawal Bhutto said the PPP sensed no danger from Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan. He said that people of Karachi didn’t like PTI any more owing to unsatisfactory performance of its government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan during the last five years have done nothing except doing confrontation with each other only for the sake of capturing the rule in Punjab, he said.
“I call upon the Captain (Imran Khan) that instead of giving electoral tickets to ATMs only, he should bring forward the party’s ideological activists like what the People’s Party does. People’s Party gave the Senate tickets to ideological workers (of the party),” said the PPP chairman. He said that “ATM candidates” just indulge in buying of votes.
He said that Imran Khan didn’t come to the National Assembly the previous day to vote even in the favour of Senate election candidates of his own party. He said that the PPP had secured more victories in the Senate election held previous day than expected on the basis of good candidates of the party.
He said that PPP had secured votes in the Senate poll on the basis of its performance. He said the PPP had won the Senate seats from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as well. Bilawal said that contrary to the PML-N and PTI, the PPP’s Sindh government had performed very well as it had invested to build several healthcare centres, cardiac hospitals, and to construct road infrastructure especially in Karachi. He said that people had no interest in the campaigning being done by Nawaz Sharif to protest against his expulsion from power.
http://www.thesindhtimes.com/blog/2018/03/05/ppp-majority-political-party-senate-will-bring-chairman-bilawal-bhutto/
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