Lahore : Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Wednesday said the consultations over formation of federal cabinet were in progress and the cabinet members would take oath within two days.
Talking to media here, after holding consultations with the PML-N top hierarchy, the Prime Minister said allocation of portfolios to the federal cabinet members would be done once the consultation process was over.
To a question he said, PML-N leadership also discussed the party’s affairs and the upcoming by-election in NA-120.
He expressed the confidence that the people would get the PML-N candidate elected with heavy mandate. The people would massively support the PML-N on other political phases as well.
Replying to another query, he said former prime minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif congratulated the PML-N parliamentary body for the continuity of democracy and the system with heavy mandate.
Nawaz Sharif desired that the policies of PML-N government should continue including those on China Pakistan Economic Corridor, energy, motorway, dams, investment and other development projects, he added.
The Prime Minister said Nawaz Sharif was of the view that the work on these projects should be expedited, to show the world that a prime minister could be changed but the policies could not be altered.