Former BA speaker says no plans to join BAP

Will contest polls from NA-271 constituency as independent candidate if family and friends insist: Bhootani

QUETTA: Rejecting rumours, former Balochistan Assembly speaker Muhammad Aslam Bhootani has said that he has no plans of joining the newly formed political party Balochistan Awami Party (BAP).



Talking to newsmen on Saturday, he said, “Neither have I joined BAP nor do I have any such plans.” Former speaker Bhootani was elected twice from Lasbela as member of the Balochistan Assembly as an independent candidate and served as deputy speaker and speaker. Last week, he was admitted to a hospital due to some health issue and now he was feeling well after being discharged from the hospital.

To a question over his plan to contest in the upcoming elections, he said that he would take the final decision after consulting his family, political like-minded friends and the people of his constituency.

He, however, said that if his family and like-minded political friends encouraged him then he would plan to contest on National Assembly seat NA-271-Lasbela-Gawadar constituency in the 2018 elections as an independent candidate.



“I am willing to contest National Assembly seat after consulting my family and like-minded political friends,” Bhootani said.
The former Balochistan Assembly speaker said that he had no information about the caretaker government. However, he said that no one had contacted him in this regard so far.