Ijaz Kakakhel Islamabad
After the approval of the Electoral Reforms Amendment Bill in the joint session of the parliament, the opposition has decided to challenge the passed bills including Kalbhushan Jadhav in the court.
Speaking to the journalists outside Parliament house along with PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, JUI-F leader Maulana Asad Mahmood and others, PML-N President and Opposition Leader in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif said, “Today is the black day in the history of the parliament. All the bills were bulldozed. The speaker did not listen to our even a single word,” he added.
“We told the speaker that you are misusing the authority, we think three to four votes of government people were counted more. Maulana Asad and Bilawal Bhutto went to the speaker but he did not listen.
I and Bilawal Bhutto tried a lot but the National Assembly speaker Asad Qaiser did not listen to us.”
Shehbaz Sharif further said that the election commission rejected EVMs. “The rigged government was imposed and now they are imposing EVM on us but we will not allow. The objection of the opposition was not given importance so the bills including election amendment would be challenged in the court.
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F leader Maulana Asad Mahmood said that they had already announced for not accepting unilateral legislation while the bills were passed through rigging.
“Our members were not allowed to speak, legislation was enacted on the basis of coercion, the faces of government members were down today, they would go to every forum including the Supreme Court, if forced, then they would fight coercion.”
Awami National Party leader and former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti said that the speaker has become controversial, legislation was made in an unconstitutional manner and the government has made the upcoming election controversial. “Conducting elections is the job of the ECP, while the government left no choice but to go to the courts.”
