Nawaz links support for 20th Amendment to early elections
09 February, 2012
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| BAHAWALPUR: PML-N President, Nawaz Sharif talking to media persons here after inaugurating the Chinkara deer-breeding centre. |
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BAHAWALPUR: Linking support for the 20th constitutional amendment to early general elections in the country, PML-N president Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday said his party would not support the amendment bill if the government did not agree to establish an independent election commission and caretaker set-up after meaningful consultations with the opposition to hold transparent elections.
Talking to media persons here after inaugurating the Chinkara deer-breeding centre, the PML-N chief said the opposition's demands were based on popular public sentiment, as these would guarantee a progressive democratic system in the country.
Nawaz said elections should be held before September-October this year, adding that things would worsen for the government if it further delayed them. He said the PML-N would not change its stance on memogate and NRO, adding that his party wanted a thorough investigation into the memogate scandal so that the characters involved in a conspiracy against the armed forces and nuclear assets were exposed.
The PML-N chief said the PML-N had never tried to get Senate election postponed and it was the PPP that was responsible for the deterioration of the political situation in the country. He supported the popular demand of people of the Bahawalpur for the restoration of provincial status saying this was the right of Bahawalpur's people since the demand of the province was free from lingual and ethnic biases. He said the PML N would go all out to fulfill the aspirations of Bahawalpur's masses.
Referring the Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani's statement that the Bahawalpur province was unworkable, Nawaz said this might be the personal opinion of the premier, adding that the prime minister should stand by his words as he kept changing his stance on a regular basis.
About the increasing miseries of the common man, Nawaz asked the government not to give a lollypop to the people but resolve their problems. Mocking the announcement of Minister for Water and Power Syed Naveed Qamar that there would be no more power loadshedding, the PML-N chief said outages were still continuing in the country.
Earlier Nawaz was briefed by Commissioner Bahawalpur Division Muhammad Mushtaq Ahmad about the newly established Chinkara deer-breeding centre in Chak 65 - RD in Lal Sohanra National Park. Nawaz said the Cholistan desert had great potential for tourism and the Punjab government was initiating a public-private partnership to boost it.
Online adds: Nawaz Sharif said the government would be responsible for the result of the Senate election, if they were held in an adverse environment. He charged that the government had misused the term "consultation" and had never informed the opposition about its decisions.
Nawaz said the PML-N supported the SC verdict regarding suspension of lawmakers elected on bogus voter lists during bye-elections. He said the Election Commission was responsible for bogus lists.
He said the credit of initiating debate on the NRO and memogate scandal on the floor of National Assembly went to the PML-N, adding that the NRO would have been legalised if the PML-N had not raised the issue in the National Assembly.
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