ISLAMABAD: Marvi Memon, who resigned as MNA after presenting a charge-sheet against the government and PML, on Thursday ruled out the possibility of joining ex-president Pervez Musharrafs All Pakistan Muslim League (APML).
I am very clear that joining the APML is not an option before me, she said during an informal chat with The News here, a day after she tendered resignation as a legislator, which she thought was an honourable way of bowing out of the legislature.
She defended her decision to resign after violating the party line and voting against the budget in the National Assembly on Wednesday, saying by doing so she had pre-empted what was written on the wall for her.
Marvi, who is daughter of former Senator Nisar A Memon, who was once very close to Musharraf, said she would spend more time with people and try to create public awareness about the issues, the nation was faced with.
She has no plan for the time being to join any other political party but Marvi said she had offers from PML-N and PTI. Marvi hails from Sindh. Marvi claimed everyone was free to take independent decisions but insisted more big names in the National Assembly would take important decisions in the weeks and months to come. The former lawmaker declined to reveal identity of those, who according to her claim, could follow suit soon because of the dismal performance of the ruling coalition.
There several legislators who are fed up with the government policies and want clean governance in Pakistan by saying goodbye to the out-dated status quo, she maintained. Marvi said her decision to quit as MNA and the party was purely in response to the call of her conscience and she was satisfied with it, as she had set a new parliamentary tradition. Asked was she convinced Musharrafs rule was far better than the PPP-led ruling coalition, Marvi pointed out that it was in fact PML-Musharraf government from 2002 to 2007.
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