The like-minded group of PML on Sunday launched a countrywide re-organisational tour to win the support of all the legislators and senior leaders belonging to the party.
In an exclusive talk with APP, President of PML like-minded Senator Salim Saifullah Khan said he was launching his countrywide campaign to re-organise the party at grass roots level and formation of party's provincial set ups. In this regard, he said, he had already contacted most of the Senators belonging to his party.
'We would also hold talks with party's senior leaders, MNAs and MPAs in Lahore, Karachi and Quetta, as I have already done so in Peshawar. We are talking to them and the response is beyond our expectations. The party leaders are not happy with Chaudhry brothers and they would soon make a decision in our favour,' the senator said.
Saifullah said he would visit Lahore on Sunday and would also meet the party's MPAs and MNAs hailing from Punjab to form the party's Punjab chapter. 'Despite the fact that the holy month of Ramazan has commenced, we would visit these provincial capitals. I have already visited Peshawar while Lahore would be my next destination due on Sunday,' he added.
The newly elected President of like-minded group said that the party leaders would also meet senior leaguers. Moreover, he added, 'we would do the most important job of re-organising the party by setting up primary leagues.' Saifullah further said that during his visit, he would also announce party's provincial organisations in consultation with the party's leadership.
Meanwhile, the party's unofficial spokesman Azeem Chaudhry said the group believed in collective wisdom and the new party leadership would take all the party members onboard in all sorts of decision-making.
'The next week is crucial and the party leadership would be in touch with all the fence-sitting MNAs and MPAs and the Senate who are yet to make up their minds over joining either of the groups,' he said. Chaudhry said the party would also contact all senior leaguers who had distanced away from the party affairs due to the 'undemocratic and selfish' policies of Chaudhry brethren of Gujrat.
When asked when the party would announce its office bearers, Chaudhry said most of the decisions would be taken after seeking views and advice from all the party leaders. 'The General Council has empowered four party leaders on taking all decisions.
However, the decision making would be made soon as we believe in collective leadership and not keeping the decision making process within a family," he added. He said his party would work vigorously to eliminate hatred and misunderstandings in different groups and provinces of the country to regroup all the people on one platform which was the basic job of all leaguers as they belonged to PML - the founding party of Pakistan.