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LAHORE – PML-N Punjab President Rana Sana Ullah Tuesday downplayed the alleged internal differences in the PML-N saying that small squabbling in parties was always there.
“No regimental discipline can be enforced in political parties”, he said while talking to media before start of a party meeting here. He was asked to comment on the alleged difference of opinion within the PML-N over two different narratives it was following. Rana said that different people [within the party] may hold different opinions and they had their own diction. “But nobody can talk against any other person in the party”, he said, adding that Javid Latif should reply to the show-cause in an appropriate manner. Sana also disagreed with Javid Latif’s assertion that Nawaz Sharif will be coming back to Pakistan by the end of this year. “Mian Nawaz Sharif will return when doctors give him a clean chit of health”, he clarified the party position on the issue.
Replying to a question, he said: “Maryam Nawaz Sharif is the future of the party. She has been successfully taking forward the party’s narrative [Respect the vote]”. He also alleged that deliberate attempts were being made to harm the party which he said will be strengthened further through its reorganization. The PML-N leader further stated that party leaders’ participation in the meetings or their absence from them should not be made an issue. “Every party leader is not required to attend each meeting. A schedule of party meetings is issued, and leaders can attend according to their convenience. In some meetings, however, the presence of a particular person is necessary; like in the case of party’s Punjab organization meetings, my presence as provincial president is a must”, he explained.
He went on to say: “In the Islamabad meeting, “Noon, Meem and Sheen” (A reference to the alleged factions in the PML-N)- all were sitting on my left and right side yesterday”. Sana reiterated his party’s stance that people’s mandate should be respected. “Pakistan also came into being as a result of giving respect to the vote”, he observed, adding that all problems currently facing the country were due to the reason that peoples’ mandate was not accepted in 2018 elections.
He predicted that next elections may be held in 2022, a year before their scheduled timing. He was confident that the PML-N will emerge victorious in the coming elections.