*LAHORE: PTI has offered Disgruntled PMLN leader Zaeem Qadri to join partyand he would also be offered party ticket. This was said by PTI CentralPunjab President Aleem Khan. *
*Earlier after surfacing of differences with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz(PML-N) leader Hamza Shehbaz Sharif and his party’s depriving him ofelection ticket, disgruntled Zaeem Qadri on Thursday announced to contestelection on NA-133 as an independent candidate.*
Without identifying anyone, he said PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif told himthat some people in the party detested his face. At the same time he alsolashed out at Shehbaz’s son Hamza saying that “I cannot polish HamzahShahbaz Sharif’s boots”.
“Lahore is not an inherited property of you or your father. I will show youhow to do politics in the city where my family elders have emerged victorsin the past,” he said adding that the PML-N had been in his blood and wouldremain so as his family had since last three generations served the party.
The PML-N leader did not formally announce dissociation with the party buthinted towards surfacing of a range of differences with some party leaders.
From now on election and war will go hand in hand, Zaeem said adding thatit was not even about election only, actually he had lost patience overmatters.
“My election is against you (now), Hamza Shehbaz. I have rendered my lifeand money to the party… I will not be a servant to you. I will not bow downbefore anyone,” he said in a harsh and visibly angry tone.
“Despite no one in the party defended it for five hours daily in the lastfive years, I have been deprived of the party ticket only because ‘someone’abhorred me and I tolerated this all for I am an ideological member of theparty,” he said.
Zaeem also announced that former PML-N MPA and his wife Syeda Uzma Qadriwill also fight general elections 2018 as an independent candidate.