SIALKOT, July 31: Adjustments of seats between the PPP and the PML-N on all union councils in the district have been reached against candidates backed by the ruling PML.

This was stated by PML-N’s former MPA Manshaullah Butt and PPP’s Sialkot president Zahid Bashir Chaudhry while talking to reporters here on Sunday.

They said that both the opposition parties had also decided to launch a joint election campaign.

According to local political observers, the PML-N-PPP alliance will give a tough time to the ruling party, which is still divided in five groups.

All these groups of the PML are busy in the electioneering of their own candidates for the slots of Sialkot district nazim, naib nazim, and tehsil nazims, naib nazims in all the four Sialkot tehsils.

It may be mentioned that the PML-N and the PPP are also divided in two groups each.

Meanwhile, PML-N’s former provincial minister Ejaz Ahmad Shaikh has also announced to contest the election for the Sialkot tehsil nazim slot.

The ‘mango politics’ is also going on in the district as all the PML’s divided groups are arranging mango parties at picnic spots to attract their supporters.

Meanwhile, most of candidates contesting elections in the district for 124 urban and rural union councils’ seats are the ones who had already contested the local body elections in 2001. Old faces are also dominant in the PPP, PML-N and MMA.

Political observers are of the opinion that old guards have been retained keeping in view the strong element of biradarism. They say that this step of political parties will further promote the politics of biradarism in the Sialkot district.