RAWALPINDI, May 13: Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) on Sunday threatened to quit the coalition if the government failed to solve the electricity loadshedding issue within two weeks.

“Don’t force us to quit the government as we cannot face the people in general elections,” Senior Federal Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi said while addressing a party workers’ convention convened by former Punjab law minister Mohammad Basharat Raja at Dhamial.

The PML-Q workers from Attock, Rawalpindi, Chakwal and Jhelum were invited on the occasion.

The former Punjab chief minister said his party as a coalition partner had informed the PPP leadership that they could not go for elections with the people facing worst load shedding.

“We have proposed to the federal government to even compromise on development schemes for arranging payments to ease loadshedding,” the senior minister said.

Highlighting the attitude of the Punjab government over loadshedding, the senior minister said the PML-N was only trying to gain political scores from the problem.

“It is for the first time in the history of Pakistan that a ruling party itself is organising and leading public protests damaging both public and private properties in Punjab,” he said.

He said if Punjab paid its share to ease loadshedding, the situation could improve but Sharif brothers were busy in blame game.

He said the Punjab rulers had double face as they provoked the people against the federal government but did not pay the province share.

Criticising the economic polices of the Punjab government, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi said four years ago at the end of his tenure as chief minister, there was Rs5 billion cash in the account of the province but now Punjab was under debt of Rs160 billion.

The PML-N government had failed to initiate any mega project for the people such as Rescue 1122, traffic wardens, patrolling police and free school education, he said, adding that the PML-Q launched development schemes during its tenure and the present rulers were busy making money for themselves.

Speaking on the occasion, Mohammad Basharat Raja hinted at going for general elections in partnership with the PPP.

He said seat adjustment with the party could be possible if the ruling party solved loadshedding issue.