Lahore Feb 25 (TNS): The office locks of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan Punjab were found broken by unidentified persons in Lahore on Sunday night, attracting strongest condemnation from the chief of his own faction Farooq Sattar, who alleged that the “Bahadurabad Group” was behind the malice and wanted to occupy party offices “illegally”.
The Sattar-led MQM-P lodged a complaint with the local police after the media reported the incident.
The MQM-P further split after Sattar proposed and insisted on the name of Kamran Tessori for a Senate seat, which was opposed by the Bahadurabad group led by Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui. Sattar also unilaterally conducted elections of the Rabita Committee on February 18 and the elections, according to him, the party workers reposed full confidence in his leadership and in becoming the party convener. The intra-party elections were boycotted by the Bahadurabad group, terming them illegal and unlawful. The two factions have fielded their own candidates for Senate polls scheduled for March 3 and it is highly likely that the party will get a negligible pie of its share it the Upper House as the split could divide the votes of party MNAs and MPAs, who vote to the party senators and at least 25 votes are required for electing a senator. On the basis of its sheer strength in the Sindh Assembly and the National Assembly, the divided party risks getting its due in the Senate as party MNAs and MPAs have joined the one or the other camp.
