GUJRAT: The PML-Q will host participants in the PTI long march for a night stay in Gujrat, the hometown of Punjab Chief Minister Parvez Elahi, en-route to Islamabad.

The party is, however, yet to issue instructions to its local chapters regarding participation in the march.

Well-placed sources said senior PML-Q leader MNA Moonis Elahi may join the PTI Chairman Imran Khan on the same truck being prepared by the PTI for leadership’s travel along the march.

A PML-Q lawmaker said on condition of anonymity that the PTI chairman would stay at the Kunjah House, the residence of MNA Moonis Elahi, during an overnight stay of the long march participants in Gujrat.

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secretary and former education minister Mian Imran Masood told Dawn that so far the party had decided to accord a warm reception to the long march upon its arrival in Gujrat as well as to extend a complete moral support to the coalition partner.

He said there had been a discussion in the party ranks and file on the matter of participation of Q workers in the PTI march.

Mr Masood, who was recently given the post of chairman of Punjab chief minister’s task force on education, said the Punjab government too had decided to facilitate the long march as the local administration and police had been conveyed not to create any sort of hindrance for the marchers.

It is pertinent to mention that the PML-Q had stayed away from the PTI long march on May 25 last.

Meanwhile, the Gujrat chapter of PTI is preparing for the reception and joining the long march at the Chenab bridge.

However, local party officials are waiting for the final date of the long march’s arrival in Gujrat.

District PTI president and MPA Saleem Sarwar Jaura chaired a meeting of party officials on Thursday where workers were assigned different duties.

It is learnt that PTI MNA Faizul Hassan Shah will organise a reception for march at GT Road, Lalamusa city; MPA Mian Akhtar Hayat and MPA Chaudhary Arshad at Kharian and Sara-i-Alamgir cities.

Published in Dawn, October 28th, 2022