ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah today claimed that 50 PTI members of Punjab Assembly (MPAs) will either vote for PML-N’s chief minister candidate Hamza Shahbaz on July 22 or refrain from voting process.
Addressing a press conference in Islamabad on Thursday evening, interior minister said, “Not five, but 50 PTI MPAs can either use their right to vote [for Hamza] or they might refrain from casting their votes altogether.”
He said “politically aware” lawmakers, who might understand PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s “wrongdoing”, will not support their party’s nominated candidate — Pervez Elahi — for Punjab’s top office.
Rana Sanaullah asserted that “Pervez Elahi does not deserve to become the chief minister of Punjab” and he should withdraw from the race.
He added that honourable lawmakers should “not waste” their votes by on the PML-Q leader, who Khan had earlier termed a “dacoit”.
“We will use all our political options to the fullest,” the interior minister vowed as he said that the PML-N was in contact with the opposition lawmakers.
“The ones in PTI, who still have a conscience, will not vote for Elahi,” the interior minister said — just a day after he stated, “PML-N will not let the Elahi become the provincial chief executive easily.”
