GUJRAT: Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has approved his long march stopover in Gujrat city on March 7.

Under the earlier plan, the march was supposed to bypass the city and have a stopover in Lalamusa, the hometown of party stalwart Qamar Zaman Kaira. The party workers from Gujrat city had lodged a strong protest over the issue.

Now, parry’s logistics committee headed by Sharjeel Memon has been issued directions by the chairman to have a stopover in the city.

PPP Gujranwala division president and ex-MPA Asif Basheer Bhagat, former MNA Sameena Pagganwala, Gujrat district general secretary Dr Zahid Zaheer and city president Mir Anjum told reporters at the Pagganwala house on Monday that the party had launched the preparations to accord a rousing reception to the chairman’s long march.

Mian Fakhar Mushtaq Pagganwala said the party had planned different events to motivate the workers in Gujrat and Jalalpur Jattan cities as a torch-bearing rally would be held in Gujrat city on March 6, a day ahead of the march arrival here.

Similarly, he said the Peoples Youth Organisation (PYO) had planned a motorcycle rally.

Wazirul Nissa Chaudhry, the PPP women wing president of Gujranwala division, told Dawn that she had been assigned the task of making arrangements for women participation in the march in Wazirabad for which she had launched preparations.

She said all women wing presidents of six districts of the region had been assigned the duty to ensure maximum participation in the reception of long march.

Published in Dawn, March 1st, 2022