ISLAMABAD, Oct 25: Sheikh Rashid, who won on two National Assembly seats of Rawalpindi as an independent candidate, on Friday announced joining the PML-Q with his followers, councillors and Nazims.

Speaking at a news conference at his Lal Haveli residence in presence of PML-Q parliamentary leader Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, Sheikh Rashid said he was joining the PML-Q after a consensus among his electorate, with the hope that all League’s factions would be reunified.

Sheikh Rashid, who had won on NA-55 and NA-56 seats, said that the party had lost at least 125 National Assembly seats owing to its bifurcation.

He asked the PML-Q leadership to prefer forming a government with the MMA. The party, he said, had a bitter experience of dealing with the PPP.

To a question, he said he had not joined the party by putting or accepting any condition of getting an office and added he would work as a worker for Jamali’s success as PM.

He said he had no contact with the PML-N after Nawaz Sharif had gone into exile nor had he established any contact with it except for applying for a party ticket to contest the elections, which was denied.