Ahmedpur East
Former District Council chairman Syed Mehmood Akbar Rizvi and former PPP MNA Arif Aziz Sheikh have joined hands and announced fielding joint candidates in four union councils of Chanigoth Town, Kot Khalifa, Gamani and Mahand.
They announced the decision in a joint press conference held at Chanigoth here on Tuesday.  The former MNA alleged that the PML-N government had chalked out plan to rig the local body polls but the PPP would foil its designs with the support of the masses. He claimed that he would get public support for his groups candidates in local bodies elections as he had spend billion of rupees for the uplift of the area.
It is pertinent to mention that both the PPP leader Arif Aziz Sheikh and PML-N leader Hassan Askari Sheikh decided to support Yasar Salim Sheikh from their home constituency Union Council Rajahu.
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