PTI announces details of its “Jail Bharo” movement, including the participation of 200 workers and five leaders from Lahore on the first day of the movement.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has threatened to start the “Jail Bharo Tehreek” and release its details if the election timetable is not declared right away.
In a meeting with Senator Ijaz Chaudhry, the movement’s main organiser, the PTI leader discussed the “Jail Bharo Tehreek.”
The PTI chairman announced a start date for the movement, and the party decided that arrests would be made in stages.
200 party workers and five leaders from Lahore would participate in the movement on the first day, and 200 party workers and five leaders from Peshawar would participate on the second day.
Party officials from a city would show up for arrest on a daily basis. At least 3,000 workers from Pakistan’s largest cities will join the action.
Ijaz was given the task by Imran to gather information from each division and provincial president. The senator promised the party leader that he would personally examine the movement’s planning in every province and would soon provide a report.
After the ECP and provincial governor couldn’t agree on a date for the elections, a separate conference was arranged with Imran Khan as its leader to discuss the Punjab Assembly elections.
There were several PTI leaders present, including Asad Umar, Fawad Chaudhry, Farrukh Habib, Mussarat Jamshed Cheema, and Hammad Azhar.
Azhar, the general secretary of central Punjab and a former federal minister, received a party nomination from the PTI for the NA-126 Lahore by-election, the same seat he won in the 2018 elections.
The prospect of the constitutional function of President Arif Alvi was also discussed during the meeting as legal issues were considered.
The former prime minister claimed that the Punjab Governor Balighur Rehman and the Election Commission of Pakistan were purposefully delaying the announcement of the election date while breaking the law.
Tuesday, Fawad, Azhar, and PTI Secretary General Asad Umar spoke at a news conference in which they demanded that the Punjab Assembly election date be announced right away or else the group would start the “Jail Bharo” movement.
“We will do all in our power to protect the Constitution.”
Four days had gone since the Lahore High Court’s ruling on the Punjab Assembly elections, according to Umar. “The Constitution also plainly stipulates that the elections must be held within 90 days, and the court made that clear in its order. The Punjab governor had to be consulted before the ECP could announce a date for the elections, he continued.
Fawad said Maryam Nawaz, senior vice president of the PML-N, had started a social media uprising against the judiciary. It should be highlighted that the social media accounts supporting the ECP can equally be found making fun of the superior courts. He claimed that Maryam Nawaz appears to be in charge of the campaign.
Azhar criticised the administration for acting against Shaukat Tarin, a former federal finance minister. “What did he do wrong? He is held accountable for the financial catastrophe created by former federal finance minister Miftah Ismail and finance minister Ishaq Dar.
