ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Yousuf Raza Gilani announced on Monday that he has submitted his resignation as the opposition leader in the Senate to his party leadership.Yousuf Raza Gilani said the notice his office received about the Senate session made no mention of the bill that was going to be tabled for voting. Issuing the session’s agenda late at night was uncalled for, he added.“I don’t want to serve as the opposition leader anymore and have submitted my resignation to the party,”
Speaking on the floor of the upper house of Parliament, the former prime minister slammed Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani for voting in favour of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Amendment Bill, 2021.“It happened for the first time in the country’s history that the Senate chairman voted [in the government’s favour]. You are the custodian of the house and not the government. You should be impartial,” he went on.
Fawad Chaudhry, the minister of information, called PPP leader Amit Shah “honourable” after Gilani resigned.
According to him, it would make more sense for PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari or Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari to quit.
He went on to suggest that it was a positive thing that the opposition parties had adopted this new mentality. “The senior leaders of the PML-N and PPP are embarrassed and upset at the behaviour of their leadership,” he said.
