‘Gen. Bajwa gave us the road to support PTI,’ said CM Elahi The leader of the PML-Q has stated that the former army chief counselled his party that backing Imran was the superior choice.
In support of his son Moonis Elahi’s assertion that former army chief Gen. (retd.) Qamar Javed Bajwa suggested that his PML-Q party support PTI during the opposition’s no-confidence motion against Imran Khan in March of this year, Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has endorsed the statement.
In a Sunday interview with a local TV station, CM Elahi claimed that Gen Bajwa advised him against joining the PDM alliance because he “did not trust Sharif family” and that Imran was a better choice.
Elahi claimed he was hesitant to accept the offer from the then-opposition, led by the Sharif family, to become Punjab’s chief minister in exchange for backing a motion of no-confidence against Imran Khan.
As they had previously misled him, he said, “I knew they [Sharif] would not let me continue [as chief minister].”
The PML-Q leader claimed that his son Moonis was instrumental in persuading him to back PTI rather than the Pakistan Democratic Movement coalition.
Additionally, Elahi said that Gen (retd) Bajwa, the then-chief of the army, had shown “him the right route” to support PTI.
Moonis Elahi stated earlier this week that “there has not been any interaction with the new military command” while speaking on a private TV programme. He did, however, add that Gen. (ret.) Bajwa, the former COAS, “had reversed the tides in favour of PTI.”
He said, “He was considered as absolutely acceptable when he was going in their support and now he is branded a turncoat. This is my bone of argument with PTI and anyone who considers him a traitor.
“I have given the PTI the opportunity to appear on TV and demonstrate to me that he [Bajwa] is a traitor, and I will demonstrate precisely how much the man accomplished for you,” he said.
The individual “had gone all out for you [PTI],” he said, but the moment he “removed himself then he became the evil person,” there was “no doubt” about it.
Moonis remarked, “If he were the terrible man, he would never have encouraged me to support Imran Khan.
