Prime
Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Sunday said there is no reason to
avoid holding of elections of Local Governments in the provinces.
In an interview with a private TV channel, he said the Parliament
should complete its tenure of five years and the government which has
presented four budgets, will table its fifth budget during the next
year.
The Prime Minister said whatever
the Opposition is doing, it is to stop the government from success in
Senate elections of March 2012.
“Opposition neither has any programme, nor it has vision,” he said adding, “as March will approach, the Opposition will lose its sleep.”
He said when Pervez Musharraf was angry with judiciary, PPP took practical steps and came on roads in support of the judges.
“I faced tear gas and was baton charged along with others near High Court in Lahore,” he said and posed a question, “Who was more supportive of judiciary than us?”
“At that time, PPP held a long march and Shaheed Benazir Bhutto was arrested and I led the long march and cases were registered against me under 16 MPO for trial in anti-terrorism court. I restored judiciary with executive orders.”
He said democracy is in nascent stages after a period of dictatorship and all institutions are going through evolution.
In a system of trichotomy of powers, every institution is making effort to strengthen its domain, he said and added he has no objection when judiciary wants to make itself strong and independent and desires that its decisions should be implemented.
“If I want that Parliament should be respected then other institutions should also respect it. There should be mutual respect and institutions should work within their ambit.”
The Prime Minister said it is role of the Opposition to criticise the government and it is supposed to say what it is saying now.
“It is role of the opposition to embarrass the government. We will welcome this role. We wanted to strengthen democracy and we will not let the opposition fall,” he said adding the federal government will not obstruct the functioning of the Punjab government. APP
“Opposition neither has any programme, nor it has vision,” he said adding, “as March will approach, the Opposition will lose its sleep.”
He said when Pervez Musharraf was angry with judiciary, PPP took practical steps and came on roads in support of the judges.
“I faced tear gas and was baton charged along with others near High Court in Lahore,” he said and posed a question, “Who was more supportive of judiciary than us?”
“At that time, PPP held a long march and Shaheed Benazir Bhutto was arrested and I led the long march and cases were registered against me under 16 MPO for trial in anti-terrorism court. I restored judiciary with executive orders.”
He said democracy is in nascent stages after a period of dictatorship and all institutions are going through evolution.
In a system of trichotomy of powers, every institution is making effort to strengthen its domain, he said and added he has no objection when judiciary wants to make itself strong and independent and desires that its decisions should be implemented.
“If I want that Parliament should be respected then other institutions should also respect it. There should be mutual respect and institutions should work within their ambit.”
The Prime Minister said it is role of the Opposition to criticise the government and it is supposed to say what it is saying now.
“It is role of the opposition to embarrass the government. We will welcome this role. We wanted to strengthen democracy and we will not let the opposition fall,” he said adding the federal government will not obstruct the functioning of the Punjab government. APP
