GUJRAT: The PML-Q workers took to the streets on Monday to lodge a strong protest against the alleged attack on party’s senior leader and Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Parvez Elahi during the assembly session by “some PML-N members”.

Groups of party workers from various parts of the city arrived at the Zahoor Elahi House in small rallies from where they took out a procession that was led by PML-Q’s office-bearers, former lawmakers, union council chairmen and local leaders.

The participants also included the women workers, who were carrying the party flags, banners and placards inscribed with slogans against the PML-N.

The rally passed from various city roads and culminated at the GTS Chowk on the old GT Road where they staged a protest demonstration by chanting slogans against the attack on Mr Elahi and injuring their leader in the Punjab assembly.

Some local workers of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) also participated in the rally to express solidarity with the PML-Q. The participants later dispersed peacefully.

Meanwhile, the PML-Q announced another protest rally in Jalalpur Jattan town’s Tanda Chowk on Tuesday (today)to be led by the party MNA Chaudhry Hussain Elahi. It will be attended by party supporters from NA-68.

Earlier, the local chapter of the PTI also staged a protest demonstration at the GTS Chowk against the ouster of Imran Khan government, where the Karachi public meeting of the party chairman Imran Khan was live streamed on a big screen.

Gujrat PTI district president MPA Saleem Sarwar Jaura also led a protest rally the other day.

Published in Dawn, April 19th, 2022