PTI threat: ‘Politicians have never been so receptive’

PML-N leaders step up efforts to stop disgruntled workers from joining PTI.

SIALKOT:

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leaders in Sialkot have reportedly heightened a mass mobilisation campaign to stop several disgruntled workers from joining Imran Khan’s Tehreek-i-Insaf.

Sialkot residents said politicians including MNA Khwaja Muhammad Asif, Special Assistant to the CM Manshaullah Butt, MPA Chaudhry Ikhlaq Ahmed and PML-N Sialkot chapter president Idrees Ahmed Bajwa had been visiting their constituencies regularly and holding neighbourhood meetings to listen to people’s problems.

Several PML-N leaders in the city are unhappy with the central leadership, residents said. They said Advocate Amjad Ali Bajwa (Punjab Bar Council member) had recently resigned from the party over differences with the leadership.

MPA Rana Shamim Ahmed and his son, MNA Rana Abdul Sattar, too, have differences with party leaders in the city, particularly Khwaja Asif.

MPA Shamim Ahmed said he had not been approached by Asif or any other central leader for reconciliation.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 5^th, 2012.