The opposition senators on Tuesday decided that they would not accept replies to their queries in the House from Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Khan alone. They warned the government that they would not accept this attitude and parliament would not be run in this manner.
After staging a walkout from the upper house, PPP Senator Sherry Rehman told reporters that the government had ample opportunity to respond to the opposition’s queries during the Question Hour.
“However, it has never happened before during the tenure of any government that the state minister responds to every question,” she pointed out.
“We don’t accept only one state minister responding to our every query. The government has turned the Question Hour into a futile exercise. It has turned parliament into a joke,” she added. Sherry further said that the opposition would not sit with the government in the House if this was what the latter had resorted to.
“We will stage a sitting of the House outside. The actual opposition is now united and the government is standing on crutches.” PML-N Senator Azam Nazeer Tarar told the media that ministers remained absent in the upper house of parliament.
“There have been several resolutions passed on the arrival of the interior minister in the House,” he added. “This is not an issue of ego but the sanctity of parliament.” The PML-N senator vowed to continue the protest until the government changed its way. “We will stick to our stance until the government fixes its attitude.”
Tarar further said PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif and party president Shehbaz Sharif had assigned the task of increasing contacts with others to rid the nation of the present PTI-led government through constitutional and democratic means.
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