PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari as of today asked how he could say to his party leaders to elect the PML-N’s contestant for Leader of the Opposition in Senate, Azam Nazeer Tarar, when the PPP had greater share of numbers.
Bilawal was talking after PML-N Vice-President Maryam Nawaz’s press conference, during which she had openly condemned the PPP for surrendering all for a “minor, inconsequential office.”
https://296e2202ea4c1f33cf236d68d2d0f3d5.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html The PPP chairman stated the PML-N’s nominee for Leader of the Opposition in Senate was a “controversial” move. He was discussing about the situation that Tarar had signified some of the suspects in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case.
In his answer to Maryam’s comments, Bilawal regretted that “a political party was stubbornly issuing remarks and taking a hardline stance”, which was leading PPP leaders to believe that their party was being pushed against the wall.
“How do you expect, given that we have the majority [among the Opposition] in the Senate, that I ask my party members to make PML-N’s Azam Nazeer Tarar Leader of the Opposition and not Yousaf Raza Gillani?” he asked.
“Everyone had aspired for Yousuf Raza Gillani to be the Senate chairman. There should have been no reservations in him getting elected as the Leader of the Opposition,
