BAHAWALPUR: Former National Assembly speaker and senior PTI leader Asad Qaiser met PML-N loyalists Chaudhry Saud Majeed and Chaudhry Khalid Mehmood Jajja during a visit to Bahawalpur on Sunday.
The PTI leader met former senator Majeed and ex-MPA Jajja at the latter’s farmhouse in the Cholistan Desert.
The three leaders had dinner and discussed the country’s current political situation as well as regional politics. The meeting is significant because Qaiser is a close confidant of PTI Chairman Imran Khan.
While the meeting has raised eyebrows because both PML-N leaders are supporters of Nawaz Sharif. The political analysts, on the other hand, appear to be sceptical of the dinner meeting that they hosted.
Interestingly, Chaudhry Saud Majeed’s arch-rival is Tariq Bashir Cheema, Federal Minister for National Food Security, who has broken with Punjab Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi and joined Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s cabinet.
Furthermore, Majeed’s current electoral situation appears to be different, as he has sensed that the PML-N leadership may favour Cheema in the next general election because he supported the no-confidence motion against then-prime minister Imran Khan and resigned from his cabinet.
It is important to note that the PTI is preparing for elections in the event that Imran Khan dissolves the assemblies in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The PTI believes that by dissolving the two assemblies, it can force the government to call an early election. The ruling coalition, on the other hand, has ruled out snap elections in favour of by-elections.
Both sides are engaged in intense political manoeuvring to counter each other’s plans.
Meanwhile, Punjab Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi is working hard to keep the province’s status quo until March.
Elahi stated in an interview on Sunday that nothing would happen in the next four months.
“Talks were the best option at the time,” he said, adding that the assembly’s dissolution is contingent on how the Centre behaves (with the province).
He stated that talks on reforms and the Election Commission should continue until March. People “who matter” will make them sit and talk, and we will do what we have promised.
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