Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur struck a defiant tone and emerged all guns blazing toward the powers that be only a few days after he went quite during a raid against PTI MPs in Islamabad.
Speaking to a group of attorneys, bar council representatives, ministers, and lawmakers on Wednesday at KP House, the chief minister came across as resentful but avoided mentioning the military establishment by name. But almost everything he said appeared to be directed against “them.”
After going missing for hours and hearing from those close to him that “state institutions” had asked him to a meeting, this was the first time he appeared in public.
Speech link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=S1dDUSBe1ePVyGIE&v=mYGv5K7tlRw&feature=youtu.be
He berated the ruling class in his address, which lasted about twenty-five minutes, and concentrated on what he called the reign of repression based on personal animosity and intransigence. He vowed to keep speaking up and to never waver from his moral convictions. “Great if you like it. Very, very nice if you don’t like it,” he said.
He expressed his outrage at being wrongly named in the FIRs about Sunday’s public gathering in Sangjani and said that he was informed he was too harsh and loud when he raised his voice.
“Don’t I have to speak up? Do I serve you? “Am I your server?” said the KP CM in a hypothetical manner.
In addition, he urged “them” to meet with Imran Khan, who is “illegally incarcerated,” and work out a way to free the nation from the current predicament.
The chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa made a reference to the military establishment by saying, “Keep your policies with you.”
