Feeling the heat of protests by workers of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) over the loss of Aslam Gill in Senate elections, the party’s parliamentary leader in Punjab Assembly Maj (r) Zulfiqar Ali Gondal has requested President Asif Ali Zardari to form a committee to probe into the matter in detail.
The PPP received a major setback as it lost Gill’s confirm seat to independent candidate Mohsin Leghari. In a letter sent to the president, also the PPP co-chairman, Gondal drew his party chief’s attention towards what he called “mule trading” by a number of “our members of provincial assembly of the Punjab resulting into defeat of staunch PPP worker, Ch Muhammad Aslam Gill”. “The defeat has not only lowered the morale of workers but also eroded the authority of party leadership,” he said in the letter. “I request that a high powered committee may be constituted to ascertain (a) identification of ‘the mules’ and (b) circumstances which led to ‘mule trading’. It is also recommended that stern disciplinary action must be taken against the persons found responsible,” Gondal said.