LAHORE: A day after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lashed out at PTI Chairman Imran Khan for his plan to shut down Islamabad on Nov 2, the Punjab chief minister has offered himself and his elder brother for a probe by the Supreme Court into corruption charges against them.

`There is no highest forum in the country than the Supreme Court. I ask the SC to constitute a full court to probe the corruption chargesagainst me and the prime minister.

If any corruption is proved against us I will quit politics,` Shahbaz Sharif declared and was quick to add that the apexcourt should also decide about those who had got loans written off and illegally grabbed land (a reference to some aides of Imran Khan).

Addressing PML-N council members who got him elected unopposed party`s president for Punjab here on Wednesday, Shahbaz said the man who was talking about corruption and threatening to shut down Islamabad was enjoying the company of a willful defaulter and a land grabber (a reference to Jehangir Tareen and Aleem Khan).

Labeling PTI an anti-Pakistan party, the chief minister said: `Aparty that opposes Orange Line train project, China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and Kissan package cannot be sincere with Pakistan.

He asked Imran Khan to have mercy on Pakistan and let it progress. `Sit-ins are agains t Pakist an, he added.

He said Imran wanted to shut down Islamabad on corruption charges.

`During our three years or so tenure projects like metro buses, orange train, safe city and power generation have been launched but no case of corruption emerged.

Prove a single penny corruption in these projects I will present myself for accountability,` he said.

Describing the orange line pro-ject as his life, the chief minister said: `PTI and PML-Q have opposed this project. The PTI even became party to a petition against this project in the SC but later it withdrew after learning that Lahorites would turn against it.

Similarly, Shahbaz said the Kyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister opposed CPEC.

`There is no other country which is giving such a huge amount of $46bn for development in any country. Our future generation will remain indebted to China for what it has done for us. Orange line project is a gift of China for the Pakistanis,` he said.

Shahbaz, who used to give different deadlines for ending loadshedding before his party came to power in the Centre in 2013, again declared that loadshedding would end in October 2017.

Telling the workers that he did not like to be called chief minister or president (Punjab PML-N), Shahbaz Sharif said: `I like to be called Khadim-e-Ala instead of CM and president.

Earlier, the PML-N leaders persuaded Shaukat Ali, a council member of PML-N from Mughalpura, to withdraw his nomination papers for the president slot.

Mian Margoob Ahmed and Samiullah Chaudhry have been elected as provincial finance and information secretaries. Nadim Kamran (senior vice-president) and Nighat Parveen and Arshad Khan Leghari as vice presidents.

PML-N Lahore President MNA Pervaiz Malik told Dawn that it would be the prerogative of the newlyelected president with other office-bearers to elect general secretary, additional secretaries and more vicepresidents of the party. The PML-N has not elected secretary general in the party`s central election.