Summary Manzoor Wattoo, Ashraf Sohna supporters collide, raise slogans against each other
LAHORE: (Dunya News) – Indiscipline in Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) meeting at Bilawal House, Lahore, caused Co-Chairman PPP Asif Ali Zardari to leave the meeting. Supporters of Manzoor Wattoo and Ashraf Sohna supporters from Okara indulged into a verbal fight in the Sahiwal Division meeting which ended up becoming a fist fight. Hitting each other with chairs, supporters raised slogans against each other leaving former President Asif Zardari with no other option but to leave the meeting for the time being.
On his return to the meeting, Zardari said that such incidents earn bad name for the party. He said that he would personally inquire into the matter and assured that action will be taken against the ones responsible. Supporters of Manzoor Wattoo and Ashraf Sohna blamed each other of ruining the party while some of the party leaders said that these fights were proof of party’s dynamism.
Former president said on this occasion that ‘container drama’ started on the advice of ‘someone’. He said that this drama now continues on TV only. He said that after elections, people got attracted towards ‘Mera Sultan’ drama but now they have turned to container drama. He said that Kashmir issue is PPP’s issue and PPP had come into being only because of this issue. He condemned Indian aggression on the Line of Control.
