RAWALPINDI: After senior workers in the garrison city refused to attend the October 18 public gathering of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in Karachi, the party leadership has asked the local chapter to convince them within a week.
To make the Karachi public meeting successful and ensure the presence of the old party workers there, the PPP has also asked the party’s former election candidates in the district to bring the old workers to Karachi.
This was decided at a meeting of workers from the Rawalpindi division with former President Asif Ali Zardari at the Bilawal House in Lahore on Thursday.
A senior leader of the PPP said that the party formed a team, led by former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, to visit all the four districts of the Rawalpindi division and convince the old workers to attend the public gathering.
He said, the party’s candidates in the 2013 elections were also directed to bring two buses each and also arrange train tickets for the workers.
He added that, the old workers did not want to attend the meetings of the party’s local and Punjab chapters due to their differences with the provincial PPP president, Manzoor Wattoo.
On the other hand, old workers of the PPP said Asif Zardari wanted them to attend the party public meeting in Karachi where he would Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in active politics.
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