ISLAMABAD - With the start of the fourth parliamentary year, the joint opposition is actively not missing any political front in and outside the parliament to create trouble for the incumbent government.
The PTI’s government, from the platform of Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), has time and again received threats of launching long-march in the month of March.
The parliamentary opposition parties have also started putting pressure on the government to move series-wise no-confidence motions against Deputy Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser, Speaker National Assembly Qasim Khan Suri and Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The unanimity of the joint opposition to disrupt proceedings of the National Assembly, average thrice in a week, by using a ‘weapon’ [Clause related to lack of Quorum] has also become a regular feature.
Though the PTI government with the support of its allies has thrice defeated the joint opposition in three important legislations including – ‘Electronic Voting Machine’ (EVM), ‘Mini-budget’ and ‘amended State Bank Bill’, yet it is still believed that the threat of no-confidence move is alarming for the present government.
Interestingly, the ruling clique managed to thwart the opposition moves against the legislation with 17 votes in all three failed attempts by the joint opposition.
Political gurus view that the ruling party [PTI] had to face a bit difficulty to ensure 11 votes in its fold during the recently passed important legislative business.
Quoting the ‘dissenting notes’ of two PTI members Defence Minister Pervaiz Khattak and disgruntled member Noor Alam, the opposition believes that this gap of 17 members would further be reduced before the month of March.
“Cracks have started appearing in PTI and it would further widen in the days to come,” PML-N’s senior parliamentarian Khwaja Muhammad Asif shared his views The Nation. “It is season widening gap in the treasury benches,” he commented in a light vein.
Asif, around two months before, had already warned of a series of no-confidence motions against the government’s top slots in the parliament.
On the other hand, the government after successfully passing important legislation is confident to thwart all the moves of the joint opposition in and outside the parliament.
A senior parliamentarian, desiring not to be named, commented that the joint opposition would never be seen serious to give tough time to the government. The opposition, with its point-scoring, is just passing time.
With all these political discussions, the new debate on the relevance of the ‘Presidential System’ in the country has surprisingly dominated all the electronic and print media outlets.
It is quite interesting in the current political scenario that both the ruling members and the opposition are denying the possibility of ‘Presidential System’ in the country but preferring to debate on it.
Above all the political scenario, the fifth wave of Coronavirus [Omicron] is alarming as the toll across the country is increasing with each passing day. The number of deaths due to the deadly virus is also reaching the red line.
In this alarming threat of Corona crisis, the joint opposition might have to oversee its plans [in and outside the parliament] for launching long mach and no-confidence motions against the present government.
