LAHORE: Provincial Law Minister Rana Sanaullah on Tuesday said all tactics to stop Nawaz Sharif through undemocratic and non-political means had failed, however, the public backlash would not only be unbearable for the PML-N president’s opponents but also the entire country, if any similar schemes/decisions were employed again.
Talking to the media after the Punjab Assembly session, he said the force with which Nawaz’s narrative had resonated with people in every part of the country and of every section of the society could be seen through the hundreds of thousands that turned up at his every public meeting.
“We’ve had to arrange addition transport for each of these rallies as the people’s response to Nawaz’s narrative has been unprecedented,” he said. “Those who cursed the parliament representing 210 million people have been cursed 210 million times by these 210 million people,” he said.
In an apparent reference to Awami Muslim League leader Sheikh Rashid's announcement to tender resignation from the National Assembly, Rana Sana said he would like to mention a deadline for those who were very fond of giving the government deadlines that the ‘politics of resignation’ would have no meaning after 24 hours.
“If they were really true to their words, they should know that they only have 24 hours to act, because after that these hollow threats will lose what little credibility they had,” said the PML-N Leader, referring to the Election Commission of Pakistan rule which bars holding by-elections within 120 days before the assemblies complete their tenure.
The provincial minister said political differences aside, but he acknowledged the political foresight of Tahirul Qadri because he had the ability of foreseeing a particular movement losing momentum and was no more worth investing time and money in.
“He exhibited this foresight when he quit the Islamabad sit-in before others could understand the writing on the wall. Similarly, he had understood that the double-edged approach of pursuing justice while crying foul had ran its course and therefore he bailed out at the right time,” he said.
Talking about the Senate affairs, he said although there were no incriminating evidence because of secret ballot, everyone knew that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan assemblies had always resorted to horse-trading or more appropriately had been bought and paid for in the Senate election. “The PPP most probably will buy one to two seats in the Senate from Balochistan but PML-N has done its homework and will come out strong,” he said.
The law minister criticised the PTI chief for politicising the Zainab murder at a time when the murderers and rapist of two minor girls roamed free in the province governed by his party.”Where is the miraculous police system about which we hear every hour from Imran Khan and where is the super efficient Khyber Pakhtunkhwa IG?” he questioned.
Rana Sana reiterated that those painting Nawaz as anti-judiciary were fooling nobody as the people knew their right to criticise a decision and did not conflate it with locking horns with an institution.