Looking for a winning seat: PML-N workers switching sides ahead of elections

PML-Q’s Pervez Elahi says people are seething over ruling party’s failures.

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) workers have already started shifting their loyalties ahead of general elections next year.

More than a dozen PML-N workers announced joining Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid on Wednesday.

A PML-N workers delegation, under the leadership of Talha Usman Sindhu, Mohammad Akbar Mayo and Habibullah Shaheen, called on PML-Q senior leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi at his residence to make the announcement. PML-Q MPA Aamir Sultan Cheema was also present on the occasion.

Elahi said people were coming towards the real Muslim league as the current ruling party had been exposed and would no longer be allowed to cheat people. He added the false promises, hollow slogans and baseless claims of PML-N had come to the fore and the people of the country were now seething with anger.

Welcoming the newcomers to his party, Elahi said it was a positive development and old Muslim leaguers should join the newcomers to make the party stronger and more active.

Newcomers joining PML-Q included Ghulam Hussain Sidhu, Chaudhry Akbar Ali, Chaudhry Umar Sidhu, Chaudhry Zubair Sidhu, Chaudhry Arshad Sidhu, Rana Shaukat, Zakaullah Dhillon, Mahmud Masih, Muslim Bajwah, Waheed Alam, Muqaddas Randhawa and Rafey Randhawa from PP-155 and Muhammad Akbar Mayo, Chaudhry Omar Khayyam Sidhu, Chaudhry Mohammad Iqbal, Muhammad Rehan, Rana Shah Jehan and others from PP-159.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 13^th, 2017.