More than 20 key Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML N), Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) supporters joined the PTI earlier yesterday.
Mian Ikhlaq Ahmed Guddu from the PML-Q, Nazir Mughal, candidate for vice chairman in UC 121, Two former MNAs and two former ticket holders on PML N,Akhtar Kanju and Zawar Warraich, former ticket holder Ahmad Nawaz Joiya, former MPA Qasim Khan Malaizai and former secretary to parliament Tahir Malaizai have decided to join PTI.
Akhtar Kanju had been twice elected MNA from NA-155, Zawar Warraich had lost the 2013 general elections.
On the other hands PML-(N) has given its ticket to Umair Khan Baloch, who is son of Siddiq Khan Baloch who was declared ineligible by an election tribunal.
The Kanju group, led by MNA Abdur Rehman Kanju, has great influence in Lodhran. Abdur Rehman Kanju is the son of slain former minister Siddiq Khan Kanju.
The group had won six provincial assembly and two national assembly seats in the 2013 general elections in Lodhran. By-election in NA-154 will held on October 12.
