Lahore (LTN NEWS): Imran Khan, the leader of the Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf (PTI), told his party’s lawmakers on Sunday to start getting ready for the general elections. He said that the polls could be called in the country at any time in the next six to eight weeks.
Imran met with Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, the Chief Minister of Punjab, Moonis Elahi, a former federal minister, and other Punjab lawmakers in Lahore. He asked the Punjab government to speed up the Ehsaas Programme, which is the main social welfare project of the PTI.
PTI sources say that Imran and Chief Minister Elahi’s son, Moonis Elahi, met at the Chief Minister’s Secretariat. During the meeting, the PTI Chairman also asked the Punjab government to do more to help people in the areas that were hit by flooding.
During the meeting, the political situation in the country as a whole, especially in Punjab, was talked about. Imran said that getting the party ready for the next general election, which could happen in six to eight weeks, was very important.
Both leaders also talked about who should be added to the provincial cabinet and how the provincial government should be run, since general elections were coming up soon, sources said.
Sources also said that Imran told the party’s Central Punjab President and former provincial minister, Dr. Yasmin Rashid, to finish the party’s provincial organizational structure in two weeks and get ready for early elections in the country.
Sources say that Imran told the chief minister to do everything he could to help the people as much as possible. He also told Elahi to do everything he could to help the people in flood-damaged areas.
Elahi told Imran what needed to be done to help the flood victims. He said that the administration and the departments involved were proactive in helping the victims right away.
During the meeting, they talked about the current political situation in the province, the business of the provincial government, the state of law and order, and other things that were important to both of them.
Khan praised Elahi for getting rid of “an illegal and unconstitutional government” in Punjab. Elahi praised Imran Khan’s political smarts for standing firm and determinedly for his rightful point of view against the political traitors.
Pervaiz Elahi tweeted showing a video of a meeting with Imran Khan:
Elahi said that effective steps were being taken to keep law and order in the province during Muharram ul Haram. He also said that he hoped the political climate would stay the same during the holy month.
Imran also met with Dr. Sania Nishtar and Hashim Jawan Bakht, who used to be a minister in Punjab. During the meeting, the head of the PTI told them to move the Ehsaas Program forward quickly in Punjab. He gave Dr. Nishtar the job of making sure that the Ehsaas Program was quickly put into place all over the province.
He said that the previous Punjab government was wrong for stopping the “splendid programs” that the PTI government was running to help poor families. Dr. Nishtar gave Imran a briefing on how to carry out the Ehsaas Program at the time.
Earlier, Chief Minister Elahi said that flood victims in Dera Ghazi Khan, Rajanpur, Muzaffargarh, and Mianwali would get money to help them. He said that the government would give each of the heirs of people who died in floods Rs 800,000.
After figuring out how much damage was done to homes, fields, and animals, the chief minister said that the affected people would also get financial help.
Elahi praised Rescue 1122, who were the first ones to get to the areas that had been flooded. He ordered that roads in the affected areas be built and fixed as soon as possible, and he told people to start the rebuilding work as if it were a war.
Elahi said that medical camps should be set up in the flood zone, and he also said that flood victims should be given vaccines to protect them from getting diseases. He also made sure that medicines for snake bites and cholera were easy to get.
The chief minister told the commissioners, deputy commissioners, regional and district police officers, and elected representatives to work together and leave no stone unturned to help the flood-affected people.
He told the local governments to keep an eye on everything that was being done to help. He said that he would soon go to the flood-damaged areas himself and that he would not leave his brothers and sisters alone in their time of need.
The chief minister was in charge of a meeting where relief efforts in Dera Ghazi Khan, Rajanpur, Muzaffargarh, and Mianwali were talked about.
Former provincial minister Dr. Yasmeen Rashid, assembly members Sardar Muhammad Khan Leghari, Saifuddin Khosa, Javed Akhtar Lund, Mohiyuddin Khosa, Amir Nawaz Chandia, and Sanaullah Khan Mastikhel, and other officials were also there.
