A show-cause notice has been plopped on Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) disgruntled leader Qadir Patel for pouring his heart out against the party’s ‘movers & shakers’, who he claims dashed cold water on his Senate dreams.
Recently, while addressing a public meeting, Patel had said that his wish to become a senator was scorned by the leadership by telling him he was too small for something as big as the Upper House of the parliament.
“The kingpins said you must be kidding. Senate is not a child’s play. It’s a big game. And you better stay out of it,” Patel, who is the party president for Karachi division, told a gathering in Lyari on Saturday.
PPP’s Information Minister Sharjeel Memon says that now that a notice has been served on Patel, he must come up with a clarification for his exceptionable statements.
On the face of it, Patel has formally joined the club of another rebel leader Zulfiqar Mirza, who fell from grace after accusing PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari of politically sidelining his son, the party chairman Bilawal Bhutto, who the outspoken firebrand has declared as his true leader instead of his domineering father.
