LAHORE, Jan 1: Deputy Prime Minister and PML-Q leader Pervaiz Elahi has said his party’s alliance with the PPP will remain intact but Q-League will also seek seat adjustment in the next election with other parties, including Tehrik-i-Minhajul Quran of Dr Tahirul Qadri.

However, the PML-Q leader made it clear at a press conference on Tuesday that his party would not participate in Dr Qadri’s long march scheduled for Jan 14.

“Electoral reforms can be made before the general election and we will strive for a broad consensus.

“The bitter experience of recent by-elections in Punjab in which the Election Commission failed to implement its code of conduct is before us,” he said.

Chaudhry Pervaiz, who heads PML-Q’s Punjab chapter, said the ECP had failed to stop the PML-N from rigging the by-polls.

In reply to a question, he said his party’s alliance with the PPP was working smoothly.

“We also have an alliance with the Sunni Ittehad Council led by Sahibzada Fazal Karim and we will try to have a seat adjustment with other parties, including Dr Qadri’s TMQ.”

He said Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s claims of good governance would be exposed if the condition of Punjab over the past five years was compared with the period of PML-Q government in the province.

“The auditor general of Punjab and the National Accountability Bureau have pinpointed massive corruption in development projects. In the ‘jangla (fence) bus’ project (Metro Bus Service), rules have been violated for which they will have to answer to the people of Punjab,” he said.

Chaudhry Pervaiz said the metro train proposed by his government was the most modern project of the world on which not a single rupee of the Punjab government and people had been spent whereas a subsidy of Rs1 billion per month would be provided for the bus project out of the tax collected from people.

He said during his tenure as chief minister the PML-Q government had built 37,000 kilometres of roads, completed about 70 per cent of the Lahore Ring Road and brought the Lahore-Kasur road near completion, but the Sharif brothers had put their plaques on these projects.