GUJRAT: Former PML-Q MNA Chaudhry Hussain Elahi, the son of former federal minister Chaudhry Wajahat Hussain, returned after spending almost 10 months in self-imposed exile.

He landed at the Sialkot airport in the evening where he was given a rousing reception by the party workers before being brought to Gujrat in a long motorcade.

The party workers were being led by former MPA Khalid Asghar Ghural. The entire route was decorated with the banners and billboards having portraits of the PML-Q leaders. The procession got a reception at Jalalpur Jattan.

A gathering was organised at Hussain’s Nutt House near Gujrat city where his father Ch Wajahat Hussain, brother Ch Musa Elahi and PML-Q leaders addressed the rally.

Hussain Elahi had gone abroad after dissolution of the Punjab Assembly in January this year.

He and his brother Musa, along with two PML-Q MPAs, namely Abdullah Yousaf Warraich and Shujaat Nawaz Ajnala, had joined the PTI when former CM Parvez Elahi and his son Moonis Elahi defected from the PML-Q and merged their group into the PTI last year.

However, Chaudhry Wajahat and Musa Elahi later returned to the PML-Q after condemning the May 9 incidents whereas Hussain Elahi also joined the PML-Q by addressing a news conference from abroad on May 24.

Published in Dawn, November 12th, 2023