Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Saturday said the people had to stand up against the way the Senate election was held and vote for the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) in the next general election to rid the country of corrupt practices. Addressing a gathering here after performing the groundbreaking of the Northern Bypass and Rakh Gajj - Bewata Section, he reiterated his strong reservations about the recent holding of the Senate election and its chairman.
The prime minister said he would get an endorsement of his views from the people and asked them whether those who had become members of Senate on basis of their wealth, were acceptable? The people shouted "No". He again questioned whether the same criterion should be adopted for the Senate chairman and the people again shouted "No".
He said the PML-N did not pay even a single penny for that purchase to any member in the Senate election. He said he would go an extra mile to put an end to this corrupt practice.
He said the newly elected Senators and their political parties needed to give a written oath that neither they were paid or they paid someone else to purchase a vote. Abbasi said today the nation had to resolve and pledge that they would put an end to this heinous practice, otherwise he warned such corrupt lot would continue to hold a sway over everything. He said the people of Pakistan needed to decide whether they were willing to see the sale and purchase of conscience of their elected representatives for a single Senate seat or to reject that lot in the next general election.
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