KARACHI, Dec 12: The People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) president has rejected a claim by Prime Minister Zafarullah Jamali that the PPP was not unanimous on its candidate for the Sindh chief ministership.

PPP President Makhdoom Amin Fahim on Thursday claimed that “actually PML-Q and its allied groups have differences over their own candidate for the provincial CM slot.”

“Despite formal announcement about their candidate, they are yet not agreed on their joint candidate for the Sindh chief ministership”, he maintained in a statement issued in Karachi.

He said: “They have a list of over 12 MPAs who aspire for the CM slot. This was the reason for the postponement of the Sindh Assembly session before Eidul Fitr.”

He alleged that the federal government was trying to secure “artificial majority in the Sindh Assembly like they had in the National Assembly by creating a forward bloc in PPP.”

Amin Fahim however said that all PPP MPAs remained united under the leadership of party chairperson Benazir Bhutto. “We will announce our candidate for the CM, speaker and deputy speaker slots unanimously,” he added.—PPI