LAHORE: The PPP’s Punjab chapter has requested party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to make Lahore his headquarters instead of Karachi and conduct visits to the rest of the country from here.

“We have requested Bilawal to move here in Bilawal House from Karachi. His longer stay in Lahore is necessary for the revival of the party in Punjab,” PPP Punjab President Manzoor Wattoo told Dawn here on Saturday. He said he had also asked the chairman to make his own team. The party was strengthened by the vision and policies of the leadership, he added.

He said the PPP needed to play role of an active opposition. “The party chairman has been asked to make the party a strong opposition,” he said, adding the chairman, after making Lahore his base-camp, should hold workers’ conventions.

Bilawal is expected to hold first workers’ convention in south Punjab on March 26. Wattoo said the chairman had also discussed launching of party membership campaign and it would be kicked off soon.

Published in Dawn, March 20th, 2016