GUJRANWALA, Feb 19: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Aml (MMA) and the City Tehsil Council have decided to foil the Basant festivities, scheduled for Thursday (today).

The decision was taken at a joint meeting presided over by City Tehsil Nazim Babu Javed Ahmad on Wednesday.

On the other hand, the Kite Flying Association postponed Basant festivities in city till Feb 28 because of rain.

Appealing the citizens to boycott the festivities, the joint meeting also decided to seek the cooperation of the district government and police in this regard.

The meeting demanded that the district administration should seal the shops of kite sellers and arrest manufacturers of metal wire and chemical coated string.

Expressing concern over the loss of lives in Lahore and other cities on the occasion of Basant, the meeting hailed Rawalpindi District Nazim for banning the festivities.

The meeting was attended by MNA’s MMA Maulana Qazi Hamidullah, MMA district president Hafiz Hamid Akhtar, general secretary Maulana Obaidur Rahman Madni, Maulana Nasir Ahmad, Syed Abdul Malik Shah, Hafiz Muhammad Akram, Maulana Ali Ahmad Jami and other religious leaders of the district.