LAHORE: Senior PML-Q leader Kamil Ali Agha on Friday shattered government expectations for support in the no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Imran Khan, saying the premier is “too late.”
The PTI administration is courting its allies in an attempt to thwart the opposition’s no-confidence motion. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood will meet with PML-Q leader Pervez Elahi today, while the MQM-P leadership will meet with Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad.
In a program on television, he expressed his thoughts. After hearing that the foreign minister will meet with the Punjab House speaker, Kamil Ali Agha told Kay Saath that it is too late for the prime minister and chastised the administration for holding a power show rather than dealing with the issue in the assembly.
In response to the Prime Minister’s decision to stage a gigantic power show in Islamabad on March 27, the PML-Q leader stated that the standard of popularity cannot be evaluated by public meetings because other political parties in the country can also hold large processions.
“Rather than responding to the no-trust motion, the government is playing Jalsa Jalsa,” he added, adding that parliament must decide on the resolution’s fate.
According to Kamil Ali Agha, the administration has taken so long to implement the no-trust measure that even their own MNAs have fled.
“It’s too late for the prime minister to cajole allies; they may have already made their minds,” he continued.
He went on to add that the standard of popularity would be chosen in parliament, and whoever had the highest number would be considered popular; this would be the only way to establish a popularity benchmark.
In response to the PML-Q leadership meeting with Shah Mehmood Qureshi today, he remarked that instead of Shah Mehmood, the PM should have gone to visit the Chaudhry brothers himself.
The administration has so far been unable to secure unequivocal backing from any of its allies who are also discussing the no-trust motion with the opposition.
The National Assembly is expected to take up the resolution on Monday and vote on it within the next week, determining Prime Minister Imran Khan’s destiny. Imran Khan feels sure of defeating the Opposition.
