LAHORE, April 5: PML-N leaders, including its central vice-president Yasin Wattoo and Punjab branch chief Zulfiqar Khosa, criticizing government policies, have pledged to resist the proposed referendum.

They were speaking at a seminar held here on Friday in remembrance of a PML activist, the late Javed Ashraf, who was killed during an agitation in Lahore a few years ago.

Zulfiqar Khosa said the PML-N always stood for democracy, and its workers remained firm in playing a significant role for the cause of the party. He said his party would continue its struggle for the restoration of democracy in the country.

He said the parties whose workers had expressed jubilation over the ouster of Nawaz Sharif’s government were now contacting the PML-N for joining hands for the restoration of democracy.

He said the people, including Nazimeen, Naib Nazimeen and councillors, belonging to the party would be mobilized to oppose the referendum proposal.

Yasin Wattoo said his party was committed to restore a democratic order in the country. He said the government’s claim of having improved the country’s economy was not correct, and added that had it been so, the poor would not have been undergoing miseries due to price hike.