PPP will lose Punjab with 'over reliance' on PML-N: Aitzaz

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Aitzaz Ahsan has warned his party leadership to keep an eye out for its coalition partner PML-N otherwise the party “will lose Punjab” if it continues to rely on the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM).

He said this while addressing a ceremony organised to mark 15th death anniversary of slain PPP leader Benazir Bhutto at Lahore High Court’s Javed Iqbal Auditorium on Tuesday.

Former Punjab governor Sardar Latif Khosa and other representatives were also present on the occasion.

“The politics of reconciliation and extraordinary reliance on PML-N will dent the PPP. The day will come when PML-N will show its original colours,” the PPP leader added.

“We are saying one eye should be kept opened for the survival of the Punjab’s politics. The PML-N will eliminate PPP in Punjab if we remain oblivious.” 

The PPP leader said extraordinary reliance on PML-N will make PPP “either B, C or even D class party in Punjab”.

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Ahsan said the party needed to move forward carefully as PML-N was causing damage to PPP’s politics in Punjab.

He said slain Benazir Bhutto never pursued politics of victimisation, although the establishment of the time was against her government.

“I remember when Mian Nawaz Sharif in his speeches declared Benazir Bhutto as security risk.”

However, he dispelled the impression that he was joining the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). He said those who hatched conspiracies against him will not succeed. “PPP can expel me but PPP could not be expelled from me,” he remarked.