"Shabaz Sharif is neither a member of the provincial assembly nor Chief Minister thus the Punjab government is unconstitutional and illegal," Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khan Khosa said here on Sunday. Talking to newsmen, Khosa said in light of the Supreme Court verdict in Asghar Khan's case Sharif brothers should immediately resign and the law should take its natural course.
Khosa claimed that in 1990 general elections, the people had given mandate to PPP to govern the country, but PML-N mutilated the electoral process by rigging and manipulation. Transparency of the electoral process is the spirit of the constitution, he added.
The governor said that Sharif brothers did not get any mandate from the people after 1990, they always came into power through the back door as people of Pakistan had never voted for them. They were supported by the undemocratic forces, their behaviour was never democratic nor it would ever be, Khosa emphasised.
To a question that Balochistan Chief Minister Aslam Raisani has had a meeting with Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, the governor said there should be no objection to this meeting as Raisani has support of 60 MPAs out of 62 members of the Balochistan Assembly.
He alleged that there has been unprecedented corruption in the Punjab bank. The crime rate in the province is rising, it is higher than other provinces. If the crime rate continued to rise, the present Punjab government would lose the right to govern the province.