ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN) supremo Nawaz Sharif’s proposal of handing over resignations to Jamiat Ulama Islam Fazal (JUIF) , Maulana Fazal Rehman, created rukus in Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) meeting held in Islamabad on December 8,2020.
PDM had held a crucial meeting in the federal capital the other day to take important decisions regarding its anti- government drive.
Nawaz Sharif and Asif Zardari had addressed the meetimg via vedio link.
Sources said PDM meeting was going ahead as per agreed agenda and everybody was waiting for Nawaz Sharif’s address to help the alliance formulate future line of action.
According to the sources , Nawaz Sharif started his speech on his turn and gave background details, which in his views , forced opposition to launch a decisive campaign against the Pakistan Tehreek Insaf (PTI) government.
The sources said “After going through various issues Nawaz Sharif came on the subject of resignations of parliamentarians and he proposed to all parties of PDM to submit resignations of their parliamentarians to PDM chief, Maulana Fazal ur Rehman”
This proposal of Nawaz Sharif came as a major surprise for PPP whose leadership immediately disagreed to Nawaz Sharif on the issue of handimg over resignations of the parliamentarians to Maulana Fazal ur Rehman for further process.
Sources maintained PPP leadership’s reaction created unexpected and unwanted situation in the meeting and as a result the meeting was suspended for sometime to divert its complete collapse.
Smelling serious fallout of PPP annoyance, Nawaz Sharif immediately amended his proposal and suggested to the participants that they , at least , should agree to his revised proposal that party heads should collect resignations from their parliamentarians to give an impression to the masses that opposition parties were serious to go for a final round to end Imran Khan rule in Pakistan.
Since PPP did not see any harm if the resignations of its parliamemtarians remain with its leaderahip so it agreed to Nawaz Sharif’s revised proposal that helped Maulana Fazal ur Rehman to reassemble the meeting.
Sources said Nawaz Sharif’s proposal of handing over resignations of PDM parties to Maulana Fazalur Rehman had brought the opposition alliance to the breaking point. PPP leadership’s sharp disagreement to Nawaz Sharif on the issue in discussion unveiled many subtle questions like it exposed difference of approach in mindset in leadership of both political parties. It also indicates level of distrust of PPP leadership over PDM boss…Maulana Fazal ur Rehman.
PPP had also shown similiar reaction at Gujranwalla rally when Nawaz Sharif suddendly started to name top Pakistan’s military generals in his address to the rally. At that stage too PPP leaderahip had strongly reacted to Nawaz Sharif’s address for naming top military general in his speech. For the same reason, PPP had refused to allow Nawaz Sharif to address to the Karachi rally.