Monitoring Desk: The press conference of PTI’s leadership surely exposed the frustration of the party and it was a clear sign that the party has accepted its defeat in the political arena. The press conference also exposed that it had failed to put pressure on the state to get NRO for its jailed founding chairman.
In the middle of negotiations in which PTI is engaged with the government, the demand for early elections is nothing but a sign of acceptance that it had failed in putting pressure on Pakistan from foreign handlers to provide some extra-judicial relief to founding chairman Imran Khan or to culprits of May 9 events.
There is no doubt that PTI is pitching a narrative through its vloggers, bloggers, anchorpersons and paratrooper writers that sooner the PMLN government would go home. Now the same mantra was amplified in the press conference but anybody who has a sense of understanding political situation knows that the government is working smoothly and it could only be a desire of PTI that the government would go home. However, price hikes and increasing poverty are major challenges for the government that is not ready to curtail its administrative expenses nor it had shown any plan to provide relief in utility bills which are major sources of economic burden over the population of the country. Moreover, provincial expenses such as buying new vehicles for bureaucrats and increasing salaries of provincial members of parliament have sent an adverse message to the public that there is othering factor present in the system.
When asked to comment, a senior politician of the ruling party said that the absurd demand of early election is being made by PTI only because despite every chaotic tactic of the founder and the entire PTI, despite all kinds of fabricated propaganda on social media and despite using all its assets abroad, neither the government nor the establishment is ready to give any kind of illegal relief to PTI.
Government circles are categorical that PTI will not get any illegal relief or deal, nor will it be allowed to create any kind of political instability.
“The government is fully focused on economic stability and, God willing, will complete its term so that all economic policies can be completed with continuity – every plan of the disruptive elements will continue to be exposed and failed”, commented the ruling party’s politician.
