PPP will not leave the PDM: Nayyar Bukhari

 

• Nayyar Bukhari of PPP says that PPP will not leave the PDM.
• He says it was Bilawal Bhutto who started the PDM, so why would the party leave the PDM?
• He says that what the PPP Central Executive Committee (CEC) decides on the resignations on April 4 will be final.

 

The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) will not abandon the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) as it was the PPP that started the movement, said a senior PPP leader.

"Who laid the foundations for the PDM?" Nayyar Hussain Bukhari, a former senator, and PPP leader told Geo. tv, “Who gave you a platform? Who started the PDM? The president of the PPP [Bilawal Bhutto Zardari] did it. So why will we abandon the movement? "

On Tuesday, the Pakistan Democratic Movement, an opposition alliance of 10 political parties, met in Islamabad to finalize its anti-government strategy. While two parties, the Pakistan Muslim League-N, and Jamiat Ulema-e Islam-F, insisted that opposition leaders resign from the national and provincial assemblies before marching on the capital, the Pakistan People's Party, the second-largest party in the country. alliance, disagree.

The PPP has now left the decision to its Central Executive Committee (CEC), which will meet on April 4.

"Any decision by the CEC on resignations will be final," Bukhari said. "Even at the last PDM meeting, the PPP president said that he alone cannot make the decision and he cannot override the CEC's verdict."

It is unclear whether the party's CEC has ever opposed the president's decision in the past.

However, Buhari added that when the alliance announced the date of the long march in February, the march "was not beaten" by the resignations of lawmakers.

"The PDM had to make all decisions by consensus, decisions are not mentioned only by the majority," added Bukhari.

He also argued that if the PDM had not agreed with the PPP's suggestion to challenge the Senate elections, the ruling party and its allies would have had a 2/3 majority in the upper house today.

"So they [the government] could have done whatever they wanted with the 18th amendment," said the PPP leader, "they could even have introduced a presidential form of government if they wanted to."