PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain once again met PTI President Chaudhry Parvez Elahi in the camp jail on Sunday to convince him to join his previous party.
While PML-Q leaders suggest that Mr Elahi seemed convinced to return to PML-Q, his son Moonis Elahi was adamant about not joining the party again.
Mr Hussain, accompanied by his son Chaudhry Salik Hussain and brother Chaudhry Wajahat, inquired about Mr Elahi’s health and expressed good wishes.
While both leaders discussed the political situation in the country, Chaudhry Shujaat stressed that Mr Elahi should convince his son and other family members to abandon PTI and join PML-Q.
Mr Elahi, who is in judicial custody, said he had already faced all the hardships, and now Mr Moonis would decide the family’s political future.
When contacted, a member of the Elahi camp told Dawn that “misinformation” was being spread by the PML-Q, though both Mr Elahi and Mr Moonis considered PML-Q a “dead horse”.
Meanwhile, a medical board visited the camp jail and examined Mr Elahi.
After a previous meeting with Mr Elahi in jail last month, Chaudhry Shujaat said Mr Elahi was not well, and his feet were swollen. Soon afterwards, the Punjab government offered Mr Elahi a better class in jail.
Mr Elahi was picked up on corruption charges. He was first arrested on June 1 from outside his Lahore residence by the Punjab Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) for allegedly taking kickbacks in development projects.
The next day, he was discharged by a Lahore court but was rearrested by the ACE in a similar case registered in its Gujranwala region, where a court released him on June 3 in two corruption cases. The ACE again arrested Mr Elahi for making “illegal recruitments” in the Punjab Assembly.
