The leader of the PPP, Shazia Marri, said on Saturday that if the coalition government took a “change of meaning” in its commitments, the party would not only boycott the next budget, but also to take a “more serious step.”
The tensions between the PML-N coalition and the PPP have simmer for months on unfulfilled promises. A December meeting between Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and President Asif Ali Zardari apparently failed to resolve disagreements, with Senator PPP Salem Mandviwalla then stating that Prime Minister’s office ignored the directives of the presidency.
In the midst of tense ties, PML-N leaders met with PPP counterparts in the governor of the house on Saturday, assuring them that they would not be treated as strangers in Punjab.
Speaking during the Dawnnewstv program Doosra Rukh Yesterday, the leader of the PPP, Marri, said that his party would not only boycott the next budget, but also adopted a “more serious step” if the government did not fulfill its commitments with respect to the public sector development program (PSDP).
“If the Prime Minister and the Minister of Planning and Development do not comply with the commitment to PSDP […] If they turn to this this time, then I think we will not only boycott the budget, but we will also take a more serious step, ”he said, without elaborating what involved that step.
Marri said that the country was not in a position to support such steps and that the government should have thought about its decision first, and added that its party was not under any compulsion; Rather, he had bets due to his “maturity and political wisdom.”
“I think this is a very delicate government, and I don’t think there has been a government as weak as this,” he said. “And this weak government is not realizing the situation in which it is, how much the PPP needs,” he said.
In January, the PPP held a meeting of its Central Executive Committee (CEC), where it demanded that the Federal Government held local government surveys in Punjab and Islamabad according to the agreement it had made with the ruling coalition.
The PPP has also repeatedly expressed concern about the construction of controversial channels in the Punjab area in the Cholistan area.
He has asked for the immediate meeting of the Common Interests Council (CCI), which has been pending for 11 months, asking the channel problem to be there.
