PTI 'offered' Punjab president post after merger: CM Parvez Elahi

  Wednesday Jan 18 2023

Punjab Chief Minister Parvez Elahi speaking during a meeting with Faisalabad Press Club's delegation on December 31, 2022. — Twitter screengrab/@ChParvezElahi

CM Elahi says he will hold meetings prior to going with choice.

No choice had been taken in such manner up until this point: Elahi.

Says Khan was their advocate whom they would always remember.

LAHORE: In a new disclosure, Punjab Boss Clergyman Parvez Elahi said Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Director Imran Khan offered him the opening of party's leader in the region if Pakistan Muslim Association Quaid (PML-Q) converged with his party, The News detailed Wednesday.

Last week, the central clergyman indicated the chance of a consolidation between the PTI and PML-Q. The proposition for the consolidation was shared by Khan in a gathering last Friday.

Addressing media people at a service in Lahore, CM Elahi clarified that his party needed to counsel its citizens and laborers prior to taking any such choice.

The main priest expressed that the PML-Q had 10 individuals from the common gathering (MPAs) in Punjab and they needed to counsel individuals of their voting public first. No choice had been accepted in such manner at this point, he said.

CM Elahi, while answering an inquiry connected with the show cause notice served on him by PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, said Imran Khan was their supporter whom they would always remember.

On January 16, the PML-Q suspended the fundamental party enrollment of Elahi for discussing the chance of his party's conceivable consolidation with the PTI.

A show-cause notice served to Elahi referenced that Shujaat assembled a critical conference of the senior chiefs, where it was noticed that the commonplace president — Elahi — didn't have the position to consolidate the party with PTI.

"Your [Elahi] party enrollment is suspended until the clarification," the notification, a duplicate of which has likewise been shipped off the Political race Commission of Pakistan (ECP), read.

The assertion proceeded to say that PML-Q, as an ideological group, keeps up with its singular character, vote bank, party discipline, and rules and guidelines which Elahi disregarded through his proclamations.

Talking regarding this situation, CM Elahi said the people who had served him the show cause were awkward.

In addition, sources expressed that the greater part of the senior heads of PTI have gone against the consolidation thought. They accept that this could genuinely hurt the party and just advantage the PML-Q since they actually accept that PTI is equipped for winning the political decision all alone.

Essentially, a few individuals addressing the senior framework of the PTI feel that — with the danger of exclusion previously approaching over the PTI boss — he should depend on his party stalwarts as opposed to go for a consolidation with the PML-Q whose administration could at last turn into the recipient of a circumstance like it occurred on account of Mian Azhar.

Be that as it may, senior party pioneer Shafqat Mehmood, when reached, scattered this impression and expressed there had been no complaint from anybody to this issue.