LAHORE: Mocking the PML-N for peddling `VoteKo Izzat Do`narrative to strike a `deal`, the PTI incarcerated leaders say it will be sheer hypocrisy to block the party`s peaceful protest campaign.

In an open letter sent from jail, PTI vice-chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Senator Ejaz Chaudhry, former governor Omar Sarfraz Cheema and former ministers Dr Yasmin Rashid and Mian Mahmoodur Rasheed said the party was continuing its `Hageeqi Azadi` protest campaign for the supremacy of rule of law, poverty alleviation, accountability of looters and recovery of looted wealth.

`This protest campaign was peaceful and continues to be peaceful even after giving workers` blood and facing the worst kind of fascism unleashed by the incumbent government.

The incarcerated leaders wrote that it was the party`s constitutional, democratic and political right to protest against such elements.

`We invite all political parties, which are not part of the ruling coalition, to join PTI`s peaceful protest campaign against the elements that conspired for violent protest activities besides using state power against innocent protesting citizens,` they wrote.

Highlighting the `dark deeds` of such elements, the jailed leaders stated those elements were involved in the 2022 regime change, horse-trading of MNAs in Sindh House, violating the Parliament`s decisions, avoiding constitutionally in-time elections after the dissolution of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assemblies, violating the Supreme Court`s 2023 decisions, conspiraciesto orchestrate violentincidents, stealing people`s mandate in 2024 and desecrating the Constitution through the 26th Amendment.