TOBA TEK SINGH, Aug 13: Chuttiana police arrested on Friday night 30 supporters of a candidate for the office of a union council for violation of code of conduct near Shorkot cantonment.
According to police, about 150 supporters of UC No 50 nazim candidate Muhammad Din Sattar were going to a village from Chak 328 GB in a caravan of vehicles. When police got information, they chased them and arrested 30 people while the others disappeared in nearby fields.
Police also impounded 25 vehicles, including cars, pick-ups wagons an motorcycles.
ULEMA COUNCIL: The Muttahida Ulema Council convention announced on Saturday their support to former MNA Chaudhry Abdul Sattar and Col Naveed Gill for the offices of district and tehsil nazim respectively.
The convention, held near Janj Ghar with Ghiasuddin Janbaz in the chair, also decided to support Tahir Sattar and Tauqeer Abdullah Bhatti for nazim and naib nazim offices of the city union council No 1, Dr Maqbool Ahmad and Mubashir Dogar of UC No 2, and Wasim Tariq and Riaz Abid UC No 3, respectively.
Addressing the convention, the council office-bearers Maulana Mujeebur Rehman Ludhianvi and Haji Muhammad Abdullah stated that they had taken decisions without keeping in mind the political affiliation of the candidates as the election was non-party and non-political.
District PPP general secretary Saeed Akhtar claimed that the former district nazim was involved in corruption and he deprived the citizens of potable water by supplying a big share of the TMA water supply scheme through a big pipe to his textile mills which was three kilometres away from the town.
District PML-N president Amjad Ali Javed said all honest political activists and parties were united in the city on one-point agenda to oppose former district nazim Chaudhry Ashfaq.
District Jamaat-i-Islami president Dr Zahid Sattar stated that this was the first time that all political parties, irrespective of their inclination, have agreed to unite against the corrupt candidates.
Abdul Sattar and Col Naveed said in their speeches that if they succeeded, they would never allow corrupt people to join them.