PML-N leader Siddiqul Farooq has alleged that President Asif Ali Zardari plans to disintegrate Punjab and using law minister Babar Awan to carry out his agenda.
Speaking at a news conference at the party's central secretariat on Sunday, Farooq asserted that all attempts made towards such a nefarious scheme amount to widen the gulf between provinces in a bid to avenge the politics of conciliation being followed by PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif.
"The office of the president as the custodian of the constitution and state institutions, is supposed to guarantee or national unity and political consensus and strengthening the federation with a non-partisan approach to and across-the-board interaction with all political parties", he said. But, he lamented that President Zardari is conducting himself as a party with a deep bias against PML-N and its leadership and all his steps appear to be directed to wreck our party and damage the leadership, besides undermining the hard earned freedom of the judiciary, create dissention between Punjab and Sindh and thus weakening the federation.
The PML-N leader further alleged that Presidency is also involved in promoting corruption and is using people like Babar Awan to carry out the infamous agenda.
He added that all attempts, so far, appear as if President Zardari wanted to punish the people of the largest province who brought the PPP thrice to power and Zardari also owed his return to the Presidency to Punjab's vote.
The PML-N leader was at a loss to understand why President Zardari was making Nawaz Sharif the victim of his personal whims oblivion of the fact that Nawaz Sharif and Shaheed Benazir Bhutto concluded the Charter of Democracy, vowing to work together to see Pakistan a thriving and vibrant democracy with state institutions augmenting the process with a pro-active and pulsating support.
It was on the heels of this creditable agreement that the entire nation adopted the 18-Amendment to the 1973 Constitution to meet long standing demand of granting provincial autonomy, he added. The PML-N leader said that much more has yet to be done in the light of the Charter of Democracy and an end to corruption is on top of its agenda.