ISLAMABAD: All eyes are on the Pakistan Democratic Alliance (PDM) meeting today (Tuesday), where the 11-party alliance is expected to finalise its plan of action against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government.
The Opposition alliance will meet to finalise their strategy regarding the upcoming long march and whether or not to resign from assemblies – an option strongly opposed by PPP, while PML-N and JUI-F believe en masse resignations would help them dislodge the PTI government.
According to a local newspaper, JUI-F and PML-N had decided that in the meeting they would again insist on their proposal of submitting en masse resignations from the assemblies. On the other hand, PPP has decided to oppose the idea at any cost.
Talking to journalists on Monday, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said, “The opposition’s resignations should be used like an ‘atom bomb’,” he said and suggested that the PDM should focus on the card of no-confidence motion and options within parliament.
The PPP chairman said that their struggle has entered the final phase as the government’s majority in the upper and lower houses of parliament has been exposed.
On the other hand, PDM President Maulana Fazlur Rehman and PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz have reiterated that resignation from the assemblies is important if the long march is to be made effective.
The JUI-F chief, while talking to media, had said, “It is my personal opinion that if the Opposition MNAs and MPAs do not submit their resignations, then the long march may not be effective.
Meanwhile, addressing the media, Maryam Nawaz said PDM’s meeting would make it clear where the Opposition parties stood on the resignations. “We will try to persuade those who do not agree to resigning,” she added.
