PML-N leader leaves party to join PPP
Senior PML-N leader Imdad Chandio has left his post as central vice president of PML-N to join PPP.
Speaking to The Express Tribune, Chandio said, “My affiliation with PML-N is 25 years old, but our leadership could not understand the problems confronted by our people.”
He further added that PPP has been working in Sindh as a party for the masses and that is why he chose the join it.
During his years in PML-N he held a diverse range of political and non-political appointments.
PML-N’s Sindh chapter president quits, may join PPP
In 1999 he was appointed as the finance minister of Sindh. He also served as the president of PML-N Sindh from 2001 to 2004 during the Musharraf era, when the entire party leadership was forced into exile. Chandio, who is from Larkana Division, also served as food and finance minister in provincial cabinets in the 1990s.
Earlier, former chief ministers Liaquat Jatoi and Mumtaz Bhutto also left the party.
Ismail Rahu, the party’s Sindh chapter president also resigned recently. Reports state that Rahu, who is an influential leader of Badin district, will also join PPP in coming days.
Addressing a press joint press conference with Nisar Khuhro at the PPP media cell, Rahu alleged that the prime minister and PML-N’s government has totally neglected the issues of Sindh, which led to his resignation along with dozens of his supporters.