The ECP is yet to give its verdict over the disgruntled member’s disqualification
FAISALABAD: It takes one to stoop down to a level of their own, where they openly despise and loathe something and yet refuse to leave it or let it go. Similar is the case of the disdained PTI member and MNA Ayesha Gulalai. Gulalai, while addressing the media following the hearing before the ECP of the reference against her, reiterated that she does not plan to leave the PTI and that one person does not make up a political party. This expressed her belief in the political ethos and mandate. Factually, however, a party mandate or political philosophy of a party is the one followed by its top leadership.
Contradictory to this, is another claim of Gulalai where she accuses party leader Imran Khan of receiving foreign funding for his hospital and its alleged misuse. Despite the grave allegations and contentions with the party leadership and admittance of the respect and dignified treatment women members are entitled to in the PML-N, Gulalai’s refusal to quit the party is rather absurd. It is important to note that PTI has submitted a reference to the speaker of the National Assembly on grounds of Gulalai’s abstention from voting for the prime minister following Nawaz Sharif’s disqualification.
Although the ECP is yet to give its verdict over the disgruntled member’s disqualification, Gulalai surely seems to have lost her ground for not having credible reasons for either leaving or not leaving the party.
Muzna Farukkh
Published in The Express Tribune, September 9th, 2017.
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