LAHORE: PTI MNA Malik Ahmad Hussain Dehr says Prime Minister Imran Khan’s conduct has forced him to change loyalty and join hands with the opposition.

“I was disappointed to see that PM Khan himself was meeting PML-N dissident MPAs in Lahore to get their support,” he said and asked how the PTI could call any of its MNA or MPA corrupt if it joined hands with the opposition.

Though he was still standing by the PTI, Mr Dehr told Dawn he would decide about his vote on the day of no-confidence voting.

Answering a question about how much money he had been offered to vote against PM Khan, the MNA asked a counter-question that the PM should tell how much money he had offered to the four PML-N MPAs whom he met in Lahore.

The MNA also leveled allegations of corruption against Chief Minister Usman Buzdar, saying that he himself had given bribe at the CM secretariat to get his job done. Asserting that he could prove the bribe case before the PM, he also threw an open challenge to the PM saying, “the PM should resign if I prove corruption at CM Secretariat. I will resign and even leave politics if I fail to prove corruption”.

He also alleged that even the bureaucrats were paying bribes at the CM secretariat to get good postings in the province.

Published in Dawn, March 19th, 2022