Lahore – Our Baby Bhutto Correspondent: Chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari reached Lahore in an emergency visit Saturday night in a last-ditch effort to retain the support of the province’s last surviving family that still votes for the PPP.
“Time is of the essence,” said a leader within the party, on the condition of anonymity. “If the chairman manages to reach them just in time and manages to convince them to continue voting for the party, they just might be retained.”
The family in question, Taseers, are residents of Gulberg and are said to have been supporters of the party since long.
“The family has hedged their bets with the party ever since the times of their late father, a respected politician in his own right,” said a Sadeeq Haider, a journalist who has covered the politics of this particular union council in the past.
With the recent settling of a court case in the family’s favour and the recovery of a missing son by law enforcement agencies, it is believed the family just might shift allegiances to the current ruling party.
With the shifting of this one family, political observers says that the party’s vote bank in the province will dwindle to a grand total of one: Chacha Laeeq “Bhutto” Lone, a Bhaati Gate kiryana store owner.
