Former prime minister and leader of the opposition in the Senate Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Monday that it was PPP chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s decision to seek the support of Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) lawmakers for his election to the post.
He stated this in an interview on
Dawn News programme
Live with Adil Shahzeb, where he said he was neither interested in the seat of the Senate chairmanship nor leader of the opposition, but it was Bilawal who made the decision.
Last month, Gilani was declared leader of the opposition in the upper house of parliament a move that created disagreements in the ranks of the opposition alliance, Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), with both the PML-N and PPP publicly claiming their right to the key office.
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