ISLAMABAD: PMLN President
and National Assembly Opposition Leader Shehbaz Sharif has strongly condemned the threatening by government in the Senate’s Committee for Parliamentary Affairs.
In a statement Shehbaz said the government is left with threats over the Electronic Voting Machines issue because they have no valid argument. This government had stooped down to threats over elections after the opposition rejected the idea of EVMs, he said. This proves that this government had no answer to the objections raised over the technical and procedural workings of the EVMs, he said.
He said the Electiom Commission had raised solid and clear objections regarding technical and operational problems associated with the EVMs which raises the issue of transparency and the government had no answer. He said the government bulldozed the legislation in the Parliament and on Friday Election Commission representatives had to walk out over the attitude of the government representatives.
Shehbaz said the threat by ministers to set institutions on fire and send them to hell reflects terrorism and was highly condemnable. This, terrorising and threatening, he said was the nature of PTI.
He said how can legislative ability and seriousness of a government be trusted when it cannot respond to valid objections in parliamentary committee meeting. PMLN held 100 consultative parliamentary meetings over electoral reforms with patience and conviction to address all concerns but the PTI government couldn’t even show patience over 1 meeting.
The only way PTI knows about interaction with Opposition is to throw them behind bars whenever they object to anything or raise a valid question, Shehbaz said.
