The top leadership of Pakistan Muslim League-N has decided to enter ‘election fray’ from mid-January with the February 8 general election just a little over a month away.
Nawaz Sharif and Shehbaz Sharif, along with central leaders would address the election rallies. Sources claimed that preparations were underway to chalk out schedule of the public gatherings ahead of the elections.
The PML-N has decided to start a series of public gatherings after allotment of party tickets and announcement of manifesto. Sources claimed the first public gathering would likely be held in Kasur if PML-N’s election campaign starts from Punjab.
Lahore
Meanwhile,PML-N Information Secretary Marriyum Aurangzeb, talking to the media after appearing before an anti-terrorism court in Lahore on Saturday, said that polls in the country will be held as per schedule whoever may have been behind the resolution.
The former information minister said that PML-N was the only party that opposed the resolution. “Elections will be on February 8 [even if] other parties cry or shout,” of the appointment of ROs and AROs from the executive branch. The decision was later overturned by the Supreme Court.
“They remain quiet inside and then create a ruckus on the outside. We do not create drama outside the assembly,” she said about the PTI. In a jibe at PTI’s founding chairman Imran Khan, she warned him against issuing threats from the jail.
“The Pakistani people will not vote for them. The people of Pakistan want elections,” said Marriyum. She also shared that the PML-N’s schedule for public gatherings will be decided next week.
The PML-N leader’s media talk focused on the non-binding resolution seeking a delay in the general elections passed by the Senate a day earlier. Continuing with her arguments about the level-playing field, Marriyum mentioned how the PTI founding chairman has been getting relief from courts and reminded the media persons how the person who orchestrated the May 9 violence was greeted with remarks like “good to see you” in the Supreme Court by the then chief justice Umar Ata Bandial, She also blasted the PTI former chairman over an article recently published in the Economist, in which he talked about “farce” elections and inflation as well as how he had “saved” Pakistan from “default”.
