LAHORE, April 14: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz is beginning electioneering for party chief Nawaz Sharif in NA-120 on Monday (today) by opening central election office in the constituency.

Begum Kulsoom Nawaz, Maryam Nawaz and others will lead a rally from the party’s Model Town offices up to the new election office to mark launch of the campaign.

Meanwhile, a hopeful for NA-126 and PP-152, Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar, has cautioned the party leadership that the workers would not accept any ‘outsider’ for the two seats.

He claimed that he enjoyed confidence of the majority of the constituents as well as workers.

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