LAHORE, June 17: President Musharraf’s bid to seek re-election from the present assemblies will be unconstitutional and the PPP may take the matter to the Supreme Court, the party’s provincial president said here on Sunday.

Shah Mahmood Qureshi said at a news conference that the United States had supported the PPP’s viewpoint on the subject.

At the news conference, Khwaja Kaleemuddin Koreja, leader of a spiritual seat in Punjab, and his brother announced their decision to join the PPP.

Qureshi said PML leader Wasim Sajjad was reported to have admitted that in case any provincial assembly was dissolved at the time of the presidential election, the electoral college would not be complete. This argument, he said, effectively refuted Federal Minister Sher Afgan Niazi’s assertion to the contrary.

The PPP leader said his party had reservations about the MMA.

Answering a question, he said a PPP delegation which would participate in the London MPC would demand that the religious alliance should quit the Balochistan coalition and the NWFP chief minister advise the dissolution of the provincial legislature to frustrate Gen Musharraf’s plan to seek re-election. —Staff Reporter