Lahore:
After spending two days in Lahore, the president of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, reached Multan on Sunday, where he had to visit areas affected by the floods.
According to party officials, Bilawal arrived in Multan in the afternoon, accompanied by the governor of Punjab, Sardar Saleem Haider, and was received by the president of the Senate, Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani.
Monday (today), he will visit the Gillani Darma Tent City, before going to Muzaffargarh to continue his visits with communities affected by the floods. From Muzaffargarh, Bilawal should go by road to Sukkur, Sindh.
During his stay in Lahore earlier, the senior PPP leaders, notably the central president of Punjab and former Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, the former federal minister Qamar Zaman Kaira, the information secretary Nadeem Afzal Chan and the secretary general Hasan Murtaza, raised the question of the in progress for the reorganization of the parties.
However, according to a source, the president gave no answer.
The source also said that Bilawal deliberately retained the ranks and files of the “dysfunctional” party by retaining the reorganization, by sending a clear message to “low” leaders.
He added that after the conciliatory words of Bilawal for the chief minister of Punjab, Maryam Nawaz, the leaders of the Punjab party were left without anything but doable in their armory.
However, the secretary general of the PPP, Hasan Murtaza, offered a partial contradiction, arguing that the president had only asked for the expectations of the floods, because the party workers were currently engaged in rescue activities.
“After the floods, we will call a provincial meeting of the CEC and, after its approval, transfer the name to the president’s office,” he said.
