ISLAMABAD – PPP and PML (N) top leaders accuse each other of ‘dirty game’over Senate Chairman No Confidence Vote.
The leaders of the two top parties PPP and PML-N in their privateconversations are found accusing each other of playing a “dirty game”during the secret vote on the no-trust motion against Senate Chairman SadiqSanjrani in which the opposition faced a defeat due to defection of its 14legislators.
PML-N’s Khawaja Asif and PPP’s parliamentary leader in the Senate SherryRehman even made their “distrust” public by issuing statements accusingeach other of damaging the opposition’s unity.
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Yet the two parties have a unanimous view that there is a need for changingthe rules regarding no-trust resolution against Senate chairman or deputychairman, as PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari at a press conference inLahore announced that the party would seek amendments to the parliamentaryrules and constitution to do away with the requirement of “secret ballot”during votes in the parliament.
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He also expressed the hope that the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI)would back it as it was part of its manifesto.
Though both the parties have formed their fact-finding committees toidentify the defectors and suggest a punitive action against them,background interviews with the members of the committees revealed that theyhad “very little hope” for success.
