Recently there have been a series of defections from the PML-N to the Chory League. Defection on principle?
Good to see the Chorys hard at work ensuring they remain in power:
THE government has made a mistake by accepting four PML-N defectors to the PML folds. Their controversial defections are an unnecessary blot on the government copy book. Take the blunt Saba Sadiq, who had the cheek to say that the country’s politics should be rid of some of the people sitting on the opposition benches. She knew well that with Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi watching proceedings in his assembly chamber, there was little risk of opposition members calling her loti and interrupting her speech.
It is common knowledge why Ms Sadiq defected from the PML-N. She runs a school, under a non-government organisation, on land released to her by Nawaz Sharif. In this school she has built for herself luxury accommodation. Last month a notice was served on her to vacate the residence and use all of the land for the school. When she jumped ship, the problem ‘mysteriously’ disappeared.
Ms Sadiq’s speeches denouncing the government and the president are on assembly record. Perhaps she launched her anti-PML-N tirade to balance the record.
Similarly, Malik Aahad is believed to have crossed the floor to save his plaza near Kalma Chowk on Ferozepur Road. Rehana Jamil left the PML-N reportedly to save the land being transferred to her after her husband died at Kargil. The PML had 261 legislators in the Punjab Assembly before these defections, enough to pass any bill. So why did the chief minister want characters with such dubious records in his party? If he allows such people into the PML, how can he discipline his own members who get into such practices?
Rules are rules