ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders and lawmakersheavily criticised the “PPP-PTI collusion” which resulted inopposition-backed candidates Sadiq Sanjrani and Mandviwalla’s election asChairman and Deputy Chairman Senate.

PML-N, despite being the majority party in the upper house, could not getits candidates elected to the top posts in Senate, as the house electedopposition-backed candidates Sadiq Sanjrani as chairman and SaleemMandviwalla as deputy chairman.

PML-N leaders Marriyum Aurangzeb and Talal Chaudhry heavily criticisedPakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan for “colluding” withPakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chairman Zardari to get Sanjrani andMandviwalla elected despite criticising him (Zardari) in the past.

She maintained that the Senate election was a repeat of what happened inBalochistan Assembly where PML-N government was toppled.

“PPP used to chant the *Bhutto Zinda Hai (*Bhutto is alive*)* slogan butBhutto got martyred today,” said Marriyum Aurangzeb accusing PPP of playingin the hands of “invisible forces”