Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ...
on Saturday condemned the politics of agitation by PML-N, which, he said, wanted the fall of PPP-led government before Senate elections in March, but the masses would not accept it and the Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) would emerge as a single largest party in the Senate.
"There are all the indications that PPP will emerge as a single largest party in the Senate after March elections with its coalition partners, and they (the PML-N leaders) want the fall of government before March by hook or by crook," Gilani said in an interview with a private television on Saturday evening.
The prime minister criticised the Pakistain Mohammedan League- Nawaz (PML-N) for provoking people and promoting the politics of agitation in the name of electricity loadshedding or any other issue. "it will not be acceptable to masses," he added.
To a question about the reports of PML-N's intentions for en-bloc resignations from the assemblies to block the Senate elections, he said majority of the PML-N members of parliament would not support such a move.
"I have talked to several PML-N parliamentarians, who said they will not support any such move," he said.
The prime minister, however, added that any unconstitutional act would not be good for the country and democracy.
Mr Gilani also criticised the PML-N leaders for accepting turn-coats in Punjab as a "forward bloc" and said by doing so they had abandoned the 'politics of principles'. On the other hand PPP did not indulge itself into such a practice at the centre and formed a coalition with political parties in a democratic way, he added.