KARACHI: Arbab chides PPP for abstaining from poll
KARACHI, Oct 6: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim criticised the Pakistan People’s Party for abstaining from the presidential vote in the Sindh Assembly, chiding the PPP for applying the “tactics of the opposition.”
He was talking to reporters in the assembly on Saturday after casting his vote.
The chief minister said that after fielding their candidate, Makhdoom Amin Fahim, the PPP legislators should have come to the house and cast their votes.He labelled these the “tactics of the opposition,” as some legislators had tendered their resignations from the assemblies while others had abstained from voting.
Arbab Rahim questioned the logic of resigning from the assemblies which had almost completed their terms, while not resigning from the Senate.
He pointed out that in the NWFP Assembly there were differences among the opposition parties and that that assembly is still intact. “Where they are in power, resignations are not being tendered. Therefore, different standards are applied by the opposition at different places,” he added.
The chief minister said that democracy in the country would be further strengthened by the presidential election.
He also hurled a barb at presidential candidate Justice Wajihuddin Ahmed, saying that he did “not even get an elected MPA as polling agent and had sent a lawyer to act as his polling agent in the election.”Replying to another question about the MMA’s dissident MPA in the Sindh Assembly, Abdul Rehman Rajput, who cast his vote in favour of Gen Musharraf this morning, Arbab Rahim said that “he (Rajput) must have been fed up with the opposition’s politics of resignations and strikes.”
The chief minister said that no favour has been extended to Rajput, and if anyone thinks otherwise they should come up with evidence.—APP
