Politicking: PML-N decides to let PPP ‘die own death’
Top leaders rule out other options for political change, focus on raising issues inside parliament.
ISLAMABAD:
Ambivalent about its future course of action, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) seems to keep its criticism against the government limited to mere ‘rhetoric’, ruling out all other options - in-house change, street protests and midterm elections – in the present situation.
The PML-N top leadership that met here on Monday decided that their party would not initiate any move to topple the government but would keep wooing other parties inside parliament to criticise the government’s “wrong policies”.
“While discussing the current situation and matters pertaining to the government, we debated all possible options but finally decided not to take any extreme step right now. Let the people discredit them (PPP),” a senior PML-N leader told The Express Tribune after the meeting.
Another insider said some members of the central organising committee raised questions about the party’s future line of action since they were of the view that the people were getting ‘fed up’ not only with the government but also with opposition parties.
The party’s top leadership told them that “unless a situation arises” the party under the current scenario would focus its all firepower inside parliament and try to raise issues of public interest on the floor.
“Ruling out all other options - for the time being - the party’s top leadership said we will not do anything that makes the PPP a political martyr,” a key leader of the Nawaz League said.
Asked about any possible effort of bringing an in-house change taking advantage of the anti-government sentiments among the component parties in the ruling coalition on the Reformed General Sales Tax, he said any such move would not be lasting since no party has simple majority in parliament.
The PML-N top leadership decided that it would oppose the enforcement of the reformed GST and would foil any government attempt of getting the RGST bill adopted by the National Assembly with the support of other political parties. “The PML-N central organising committee expressed dismay over a lack of response even a month after the PML-N supremo had written to the PPP co-chairperson giving him suggestions on ending corruption, good governance and the appointment of the heads of public corporations in a transparent manner” a press release said.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 7th, 2010.
Ambivalent about its future course of action, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) seems to keep its criticism against the government limited to mere ‘rhetoric’, ruling out all other options - in-house change, street protests and midterm elections – in the present situation.
The PML-N top leadership that met here on Monday decided that their party would not initiate any move to topple the government but would keep wooing other parties inside parliament to criticise the government’s “wrong policies”.
“While discussing the current situation and matters pertaining to the government, we debated all possible options but finally decided not to take any extreme step right now. Let the people discredit them (PPP),” a senior PML-N leader told The Express Tribune after the meeting.
Another insider said some members of the central organising committee raised questions about the party’s future line of action since they were of the view that the people were getting ‘fed up’ not only with the government but also with opposition parties.
The party’s top leadership told them that “unless a situation arises” the party under the current scenario would focus its all firepower inside parliament and try to raise issues of public interest on the floor.
“Ruling out all other options - for the time being - the party’s top leadership said we will not do anything that makes the PPP a political martyr,” a key leader of the Nawaz League said.
Asked about any possible effort of bringing an in-house change taking advantage of the anti-government sentiments among the component parties in the ruling coalition on the Reformed General Sales Tax, he said any such move would not be lasting since no party has simple majority in parliament.
The PML-N top leadership decided that it would oppose the enforcement of the reformed GST and would foil any government attempt of getting the RGST bill adopted by the National Assembly with the support of other political parties. “The PML-N central organising committee expressed dismay over a lack of response even a month after the PML-N supremo had written to the PPP co-chairperson giving him suggestions on ending corruption, good governance and the appointment of the heads of public corporations in a transparent manner” a press release said.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 7th, 2010.