ISLAMABAD: Senior PTI leader and former information minister Fawad Chaudhry has described the move by Speaker National Assembly Raja Pervez Ashraf to accept resignations of PTI lawmakers as attempts to save dissident party leader Raja Riaz from losing the post of opposition leader.
His comments came moments after speaker approved the resignations of 43 more PTI legislators on Tuesday, taking the tally to 124 as he has already accepted 81 resignations in three phases, which were submitted in April last following the ouster of Imran Khan as prime minister through no-confidence vote.
It is pertinent to mention here that PTI wanted to return to the assembly to replace Raja Riaz and join constitutional business in the NA including the one to remove Shehbaz Sharif from power if President asks him to get vote of confidence.
Taking to Twitter on Tuesday, Fawad Chaudhry said 40 per cent of NA seats had now become vacant owing to the steps taken by Mr Ashraf’s to protect Raja Riaz, adding that the country had reached closer to the elections. “Elections are only solution to this crisis,” he said, adding that how long the government could evade the polls as it is public that will decide through their vote in the last.
محدود تعداد میں اسمبلی جانے کا مقصد راجہ ریاض کو اپوزیشن لیڈر کے عہدے سے فارغ کرنا تھا ورنہ اس قومی اسمبلی کی کوئ نمائندہ حیئثئت نہیں کہ اس میں واپس جائیں، اس وقت شہباز شریف حکومت 172 لوگوں کی حمائیت کھو چکی ہے اور حکومت بچانے کیلئے لوٹوں پر انحصار کر رہی ہے،
— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) January 24, 2023
He said the sole purpose behind PTI’s decision to return to the assembly to remove Raja Riaz otherwise the assembly had lost representations. He claimed that Shehbaz Sharif had lost majority and he was depending on turncoats to save his government.
