Pakistan Muslim League-N leaders Rana Mehmood-ul-Hassan MNA, Members of Punjab Assembly Shahid Mehmood Khan, Abdul Waheed Arain, Amar Saeed Ansari, former Punjab Minister for Auqaf Haji Ehsan-uddin Qureshi condemned President Asif Zardari and Governor Salmaan Taseer for imposing the governor's rule in Punjab.
Sealing the Punjab Assembly building and said both Zardari and Taseer proved that they lacked the majority to elect their leader of the House otherwise they would have used the constitutional course to ask the PML-N to elect a new leader to replace Shahbaz Sharif instead of imposing the governor's rule.
In their joint statement issued here on Friday they were buying time to purchase the loyalties of enough MPAs to form their own government in the Punjab, he added. They said the PML-N enjoyed the requisite majority to form the government but the PPP government at the Centre had unconstitutionally deprived it of its mandate to rule the province. He claimed the PML-N was fully backed by the PML-Q forward bloc.
Both the speaker and the deputy were given chairs while other MPAs sat on the floor during the session, which also passed two resolutions. They condemned President Zardari for his "unwise and short-sighted act that not only jeopardises the country's security but also the future of democracy". They demanded that Asif Zardari should bring back the two billion dollars of public money that he had shifted to foreign banks.
They also called the locking of the Assembly building as a sheer insult to people's mandate and democracy, warning that people would avenge the rulers for their anti-people and undemocratic actions. They demanded of President Zardari to hold fresh elections to see his popularity with the people.
They said the PML-N would continue the struggle for the restoration of democracy and would show that its leadership was eligible for leading the masses. They said if President Zardari was clean and sincere to lead the country, he should strike down the NRO to face corruption cases in the courts besides bringing back the plundered billions of dollars of public money to Pakistan.
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