Lahore (LTN NEWS): The PML-Q has asked its Punjab general secretary, Kamil Ali Agha, to explain why he called an illegal party meeting and removed Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain as president.
At a meeting of the PML-Central Q’s Executive Committee on Thursday in Islamabad, party members, including Secretary General Tariq Bashir Cheema, provincial presidents, and central officials, decided to send the notice.
Through unanimous resolutions, the participants showed that they had full faith in Chaudhry Shujaat’s ability to lead.
The presidents of the PML-Q chapters in Sindh, Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Gilgit-Baltistan all said that the party’s meeting in Lahore last week was not their responsibility.
PML-Punjab Q’s general secretary called for an “illegal” election within the party on October 10th. ECP was asked to stop it.
They were also very angry about Chaudhry Shujaat’s health statement and the Lahore meeting where he and Cheema were removed from their party positions.
In another resolution that was passed by the party’s CEC on Thursday, the session that Kamil Ali Agha called for on August 10 was called “non-mandatory,” and the Punjab organization was told that it did not have the power to call any session. The resolution also said that party leaders who went to the meeting called by Senator Agha would also be suspended.
Since the PML-Q “CEC” meeting last week, led by Senator Agha in Lahore, decided to hold intra-party elections in 10 days and set up a five-member election commission, it is believed that the PML-Q has gone to the election commission and asked them to stop the “illegal” election called by the party’s Punjab general secretary.
A split appeared in the PML-Q, especially among the Chaudhry of Gujrat, after party president Shujaat wrote a letter to the party’s 10 MPAs, including Chaudhry Parvez Elahi, telling them to vote for PML-Hamza N’s Shehbaz, who was running against Mr. Elahi for the chief minister’s job.
Soon after Mr. Elahi was elected as the new chief minister with the support of all 10 PML-Q MPAs, Senator Agha called a meeting of the central executive committee and passed several resolutions, including one to get rid of president Shujaat and secretary general Cheema.
Only 83 of the committee’s 150 members were present at the meeting. Forty people were there, so the meeting could start. Dawn heard from a source in the Parvez Elahi camp that the party would hold new elections within the party on the date that had been set and choose a new president and secretary general.
