December 16, 2007	Sunday	Zilhaj 5, 1428

GUJRANWALA, Dec 15: Former tehsil naib nazim Ehsanullah of the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-i-Azam (PML-Q) on Saturday joined the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in the presence of party’s general secretary Jehangir Badr and announced support for all PPP aspirants.

Ehsanullah is the son of PPP’s former federal minister Haji Amanullah, who left the party when its leadership ignored him in nominations for local government elections and later he and his kin joined the PML-Q.

Ehsanullah was elected tehsil naib nazim, but he developed differences with Nazim Babu Javed Ahmad and went underground. In the changed political atmosphere, Ehsanullah decided to abandon his hibernation and switching back to the PPP.

Meanwhile, Badr has criticised the PML-Q and alleged that the Chaudhrys of Gujrat were launching their election campaign against Benazir Bhutto, but their politics had been restricted only to get billboards installed along the roads.

Addressing party workers at the fruit market on Sheikhupura Road here on Saturday, the PPP general-secretary said the Chaudhrys had been struck in ‘BB phobia’.

He said the government and the Chaudhrys were responsible for the current flour crisis and price hike in the country.