Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Monday issued a show cause notice to Punjab Chief Minister PML-Q provincial party chief Chaudhry Parvez Elahi over reports that the latter wanted to merge the party into the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
The show cause notice was issued by Hussain on Monday fater chairing a high-level, emergency meeting of the party which was attended by the party’s central secretary Tariq Bashir Cheema, PML-Q Senior Vice President Chaudhry Salik, and senior leader of the party Chaudhry Shafay Hussain.
During the meeting , Elahi’s statements of wanting to merge the provincial party into the PTI were discussed.
In the show cause notice, Hussain stated that such a step would be illegal and unconstitutional.
“PML-Q, as a political party has a particular character, vote bank, party discipline, constitution and rules, which were violated in your late night statements to the media,” the notice read.
Subsequently, Elahi’s basic party membership was suspended and he was given seven days to explain the statements.
Failure to do which would attract action from the party.
Earlier, the meeting also discussed the the recent conversation with former president and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari.
