LAHORE, Dec 3: Pakistan People’s Party’s disgruntled couple -- Nahid Khan and Safdar Abbasi -- is going to launch “Save PPP Movement” on Dec 6 from Lahore.

They have also asked PPP co-chairman President Asif Ali Zardari to quit the party office and announce (party) elections, setting it as one of the main conditions for their reconciliation with him (Mr Zardari).

“We are going to launch the ‘Save PPP Movement’ on Dec 6 at a convention to be held at Awan-i-Iqbal in connection with the party’s Foundation Day,” Nahid Khan said while talking to a group of journalists here on Monday.

She said the time had come to bring all ideological workers under one umbrella to save the party of Z. A. Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto (Shaheed).

To a question about any chances of reconciliation with President Zardari, Ms Nahid said it was only possible if he quit the party office and held party elections so that ideological workers could get a chance to have some important slots. Besides, the president must redress the grievances of the workers, she added.

Safdar Abbasi said: “A number of diehard PPP legislators are worried over the state of affairs in the party and want to quit but we have stopped them from doing so and asked them to join us in our struggle to rid the party of opportunists.” The former senator said they would reach out to all ideological party workers across the country and mobilise them.

To a question about taking part from the platform of ‘PPP ideological group’ in the elections, Mr Abbasi said: “I do not see general elections in May next year. In case the elections are held on time, Nahid and I will certainly think contesting from Sindh.”

The couple again called for exposing the ‘real murderers’ of Benazir Bhutto. “When we visit Sindh the people ask us that they don’t need anything from the PPP leadership but exposing the murderers of Ms Bhutto,” Nahid Khan said.

To a question about leadership qualities in Bilawal Bhutto, Ms Nahid said: “Bilawal will have to put himself through the mill like his mother. At the moment he is following his father.”

About the genuineness of the Benazir’s will, she said: “I still have doubts about it.”

The couple also questioned appointing an ‘outsider’, Manzoor Wattoo, president of PPP Punjab. “If the party’s command is given to persons like Wattoo and Anwar Saifullah then the party workers will certainly question the leadership,” Abbasi said.