TOBA TEK SINGH, Nov 27: A change of scene in local politics was witnessed on Tuesday when sitting district nazim’s grandson Mian Junaid Anwaar announced that he would contest NA-93 elections on PML-N’s ticket.

Junaid is grandson of PML-Q’s former MNA and District Nazim Chaudhry Abdul Sattar and son of renowned political figure Mian Anwaar.

It was expected that Junaid will be a PML-Q candidate for the slot but the party preferred fielding former MNA Mian Farhan Latif again and ignored Junaid.

The district nazim’s grandson had developed contacts with Nawaz Sharif during his stay in the United Kingdom. Sahrif’s arrival on Sunday provided him an opportunity to rekindle his relations with the PML-N’s leader, so he went to Lahore along with his supporters in a caravan to receive the Sharifs. This left a good impression on Sharifs too, and they decided to award him the party ticket.

PML-N district president Choudry Amjad Ali Javed confirmed that party ticket had been awarded to Junaid. He said that following the party leadership’s directives, he himself would now contest elections from PP-86 instead of NA-93.

After the change of recent scene, a tough contest between PML-N’s Junaid, PML-Q’s Latif and PPP’s Hafeezullah Ishaq, a former bureaucrat, is likely.

: Former federal information minister Khalid Ahmad Khan Kharal has said that he would decide in a day or two that who (either he or his son Haider Kharal) would contest the upcoming elections at NA-94 in Kamalia.

Talking to reporters on Tuesday, he said that both he and his son had filed their nomination papers but they would decide in a couple of days to the effect that who would withdraw his papers to pave the way for the other.

He said PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto had awarded ticket to his wife Azra Kharal on reserve seats of both National and Punjab Assembly but he returned the tickets and decided not to field his wife in politics.