PIND DADAN KHAN: Federal Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry has taken a swipe at opposition leaders saying that their bid to bring a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan was doomed to fail “as their own families did not trust them”.
Fawad said the opposition parties with their “diminishing public support” were not in a position to topple the democratically-elected government through its long march on Islamabad on March 27.
“We will send ‘Doliyan’ (palanquins) to bring you (to Islamabad) on shoulders, as in my opinion, you are not even able to hold a walk let alone [stage] the long march,” he quipped while addressing PTI activists in Punjab’s Pind Dadan Khan town.
“They [opposition] are destined to fail as even their own parliamentarians will not stand by them,” he added.
The minister said the opposition leaders should first learn to stand on their own feet, if they wanted to launch a long march.
“However, they have no guts and political prowess to challenge Prime Minister Imran Khan, who fully enjoys the trust of the whole nation.”
Fawad said the ideologies of the PPP and JUI-F were poles apart as the former was a liberal party and the latter a religious one. “The two of them joined hands because of the dearth of political activists in PPP, which believes that the students of seminaries could be used to hold the long march.”
