Hamza could become Punjab CM with treasury bench votes: Abbasi.

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) senior leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said on Monday that Leader of the Opposition in the Provincial Assembly Hamza Shehbaz has the chance to become the chief minister of Punjab if the party sought votes from the treasury benches.

His statement was in reference to the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) strategy to seek votes from the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) to get Yousaf Raza Gillani elected to the post of Senate leader of the Opposition; a move which has been declared as against the interests and decisions of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) by others in the alliance.

Abbasi said in the past, opposition members used to join the government but the reverse happened this time around as members of the government started forming alliances with the...