No-confidence only democratic move to remove PM: Bilawal Bhutto

Islamabad: Chairman Pakistan People’s Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Monday said that the no-confidence is the only democratic, legal and constitutional means to remove a prime minister. The government has tried to sabotage the no-confidence and does not realise that he has committed a huge crime.

Addressing a press conference with the other leaders of the opposition parties, Bilawal said Imran Khan has broken the constitution. He could have not dissolved the assembly before the vote on the no-confidence motion.

The Chair PPP said that the political parties drafted this constitution in 1973 and again purge out dictators illegal inclusion of clauses by the dictators by 18th amendment.

The PPP workers are happy that the selected has gone home but we are not happy that any illegal act is committed. We want voting on no-confidence motion. The democracy must continue. Imran and his party is so naive that they are celebrating the removal of their own government. Imran’s government has committed suicide. Imran is the person who was thumping the desk when I had called him a selected prime minister, Chairman PPP said.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that we are the people who protect the democracy and the constitution. Imran would have been removed through voting on no-confidence as we have shown 197 votes in the national assembly. The deputy Speaker, prime minister and president broke the constitution through a conspiracy. Now the Supreme Court has to decide that whether the ego of Imran Khan is important or the constitution. Today is 4 April, the date when the Quaid-e-Awam was judicially assassinated. Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was the founder of this constitution and the Presidential reference of this murder is still pending in the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court failed to stop the coup of General Zia and General Musharraf. Now we request the Supreme Court to stop the coup attempt by Imran Khan. The constitution is not a piece of paper, it binds the federation. We request the constitution of a full bench of the Supreme Court to hear this case. The process of no-confidence must be completed. If we cannot implement the constitution in the Parliament then where can we implement it. The fate of Pakistan will be decided by the verdict of the Supreme Court.

Responding to questions of the journalists he said that it is written in the constitution that how a prime minister is elected and how the Prime minister is removed. When there is no leader of the house and the leader of the opposition then consultation on an interim government is futile. No one has power to dissolve the assembly when a no-confidence motion had been tabled. We hope from the judiciary to stop the coup by an individual. Imran has made himself an interim prime minister. We want free and fair elections not compromised elections like in 2018. This is an opportunity for the judiciary to remove blot on it in the past rather we all including the Parliament and all other institutions have to remove the blot on them. The opposition had submitted a no-confidence against the Speaker so his powers were ended to prorogue the session. The Supreme Court should tell us that whether Qasim Suri had the power to declare more than half the strength of the National Assembly? This joke must end. We hope that the mistakes of the past will not be repeated.