Rana Sanaullah says ‘elections won’t be held on May 14 at any cost’

FAISALABAD: Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said on Sunday that elections will not be held on May 14 at any cost and the opposition cannot pressurise the government, ARY News reported.

While talking to the media, Rana Sanaullah said that the opposition’s tactics to pressurise the government will be failed and the elections will not be held on May 14 at any cost. “Elections will be held in the country on the same day. Polls will be conducted this year under the supervision of the caretaker government.”

Criticising the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan, Sanaullah said that this ‘evil’ was imposed on the country through a conspiracy and his policies destroyed the national economy. He claimed that the prices of essential commodities like flour, sugar and petrol were low at the end of the PML-N government in 2013.

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He further claimed that the PML-N government had eliminated loadshedding and terrorism in the country. He blamed the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for skyrocketing inflation. He added that the IMF set conditions to end subsidies on petrol, electricity and gas.

The interior minister said that Nawaz Sharif had brought the country out of crisis. Sanaullah said that the country was prevented from facing default and the economic crisis will be over soon.

He said that the PML-N government will bring the country of crisis under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif and development works will be restarted soon. He criticised that the opposition has nothing else to do except for running baseless propaganda.

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Rana Sanaullah claimed that Nawaz Sharif will return to Pakistan before the elections to lead his political party.

Earlier, Sanaullah said that the Punjab elections will affect the general polls and any flaw in security will worsen the law and order situation in the country.

Rana Sanaullah said in a statement that if elections are organised in Punjab then elections in each province will be held six months before the general polls.

He alleged that attempts are being made to conduct controversial elections. He said that security arrangements for Punjab elections are impossible in the current circumstances. Sanaullah added that the government is being forced to spend billions on security arrangements.