Gandapur vows to raise voice for KP rights

PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) -nominated chief minister for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Ali Amin Gandapur, said on Monday he would raise his voice for rights of the province.

“If we do not get our provincial rights or someone thinks not to give our rights to us, they are living in fool s’ paradise. We know how to take and snatch our rights,” he told reporters on the premises of Peshawar High Court (PHC) where he had appeared to secure the protective bail.

He said that they were aware of the financial constraints, therefore, they cannot afford delay in the receiving arrears of electricity royalty and shares in the National Finance Commission Award.

To a question, the proposed CM said that no one had been shortlisted for the upcoming provincial cabinet yet, as the PTI founder and former prime minister Imran Khan would take a decision in this regard.

“Pakistan Democratic Movement head Maulana Fazlur Rahman has recently admitted the ousting of an elected (PTI) government under a conspiracy and divulged the names of the plotters. This is now the responsibility of Supreme Court to summon those persons involved in the plot and order investigation against them,” Gandapur said and suggested that the accused should be punished so no one could dare to violate the people’s mandate in future. He said that the practice of toppling an elected government would continue in this country if those responsible for such acts were not punished.

“If we want to move forward and change this culture, then we must have to award severe punishment to the violators of law and the Constitution,” he emphasised.About the deserters of PTI, who left the party during the critical phase of its history, Gandapur said that such opportunists would never be given any space in the party again.

“It was good that the opportunists and selfish people quit the party when it was in trouble and now the new faces would run the party in a befitting manner,” he said.Reserved seats are our right and we will get this right at all costs, he said.