Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan predicted on Saturday that general elections would be held in held in March or April. The elections are officially scheduled for October with the PDM-led incumbent government considering an extension in the tenure of the National Assembly, which ends in July, in the face of Imran’s demand for snap election.

Speaking to the media in Lahore, Imran said that they would continue their alliance with the PML-Q in return for their support. “We will go confirm the resignations of the members of the National Assembly on Monday,” he added.

A total of 123 lawmakers of the PTI had rendered their resignation shortly after Imran was ousted in a vote of no-confidence in April this year. The resignations were accepted by Qasim Suri, the deputy speaker at the time filling in for NA Speaker Asad Qaiser. Both resigned shortly after Imran’s ouster. But the incoming speaker, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, rescinded the decision to accept the resignations saying the speaker had not followed procedure. The Islamabad High Court had also declared Qasim Suri’s ruling as illegal and unconstitutional, following which the new speaker was given the mandate to accept the resignations. Pervaiz Ashraf started accepting resignations piecemeal, beginning with eleven lawmakers, with the move challenged by the PTI.

During his media talk, Imran Khan said that he would not make compromises for the sake of power. “I will not hurt the trust of the people.”

Imran also lashed out at the former army chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, who recently retired after six years as the head of the army. Imran said that in the last one year he realized Gen Bajwa did not want accountability. He said the general was hoping that the support, which according to Imran the PTI enjoys among the masses, would wane as time passes ‘but that did not happen’.

He claimed that if the army chief was one who desired accountablity, then his party the PTI would have rooted out corruption from the country.

He reiterated earlier claims that the ECP was compromised. He has on multiple occasions accused the election commission and its chief of being in the pocket of the PML-N and the Establishment.

“General Bajwa retired had a deal with [Asif] Zardari and [Sindh Chief Minister] Murad Ali Shah,” he said.

Imran also challenged the notion that the PTI was funded from illelgal sources while claiming that the PPP and the PML-N had no receipt of funding. “We have a database of 40,000 donors.”