Imran Khan announces intra-party elections after general polls

Claims PTI to win next polls with two-third majority

Says PTI to protest outside ECP on Thursday for CEC’s resignation

ISLAMABAD, AUG 1 /DNA/ – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said that intra-party elections would be in the PTI after the general elections by using technology in order to ensure transparency and meritocracy in the party since PTI became the largest political party of the country.

Speaking at the party’s national council here on Monday, Imran Khan stressed the need for working on the party’s ideology as he said that he realised in these four months that some of the party members do not know about its ideology.

He stated that the PTI chose its leaders through the Insaf Students Federation (ISF) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by holding elections within the federation. “We are going to follow the same electoral process as that of ISF to choose leaders based on merit,” he added. He said that PTI has become a big party as leaders like Murad Saeed have emerged in PTI through ISF.

Comparing his party with the PML-N and PPP, Imran Khan said that there was no concept of merit within these parties due to which they shrunk fast and reduced to some specific pockets.

PTI Chairman recalled that the PTI government tried its best to introduce Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) to ensure free and transparent elections but the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja’s sabotaged all their efforts to secure the system of rigging for PPP and PML-N.

However, he claimed that despite all these cabal of crooks gathered against PTI, his party would get a two-thirds majority in the next elections, as these corrupt rulers exposed before the people within few months.

Berating the coalition government, Imran Khan said that these parties were not interested in rectifying the economy or reducing inflation but were only interested in obtaining the NRO-II, ending corruption cases against themselves worth Rs. 1,100 billion.

He went on to say that senior leaders of both PML-N and PPP had been criticizing each other since 1988 and joined hands instantly to topple well-performing PTI government because their only motto was to preserve the looted money since they have no ideology and are only hungry for power.

Imran Khan said that the imported government imposed through foreign conspiracy had lost its credibility both nationally and internationally to an extent that the Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa has to now request for the IMF loan.

He demanded that an emergency should be imposed in the country at this time so as no one should send money abroad, adding that those who could have stopped the conspiracy are also responsible for what is happening in the country because he was not ousted due to corruption rather all economic indicators showed that the PTI government was performing exceptionally well on all fronts.

However, Imran Khan said that the current abysmal economic situation of the country clearly indicated that they never came with a plan or a roadmap to stabilise the economy due to which the country was inching towards a default, as today the coalition government has made Pakistan the fourth country in the world nearing default.

The PTI chairman said that the public is certainly under the burden of inflation due to the incompetent and power hungry rulers who were busy in waving the corruption cases filed against them.

Comparing his party government’s performance with the coalition government, he said that record tax revenue was collected during PTI’s tenure, adding that the external deficit was $500 million in March and now it is $2.6 billion.

Imran Khan said: “Inflation in our government was 17 per cent and today it has reached 38 percent. The PTI Chairman said that his government provided the most jobs during the Covid-19 crisis. “During our government, petrol was available at Rs150 and diesel at Rs144 and today the prices of petrol are low in the world but the price of petrol in the country is Rs227 and diesel is Rs244,” he added.

He said that Shehbaz Sharif spent Rs50 billion on his self-projection through advertisements while PTI thought about future generations by planting billions of trees.

PTI Chairman announced that PTI would hold protest outside the ECP office in Islamabad on August 4 to demand CEC’s resignation.

Imran said that the assemblies of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab had passed resolutions against the CEC, stating that they had lost confidence in him. “The commission should under no circumstances conduct the next general elections,” he asserted.