While talking to a workers’ convention in Lahore about the by-polls due on July 17, Maryam said the capital of Punjab has always belonged to PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif.

She said each day will bring good news now.

But since the past four years, Maryam added, Lahore was like an orphan.

“The [former] incapable government turned Lahore into ruins. [But] we will set new records of development for Lahore by working day and night.”

The party leader further said Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif worked round-the-clock for improvements in Punjab.

“[People of] Punjab don’t even know whether their chief minister was Usman Buzdar or Farah Khan.”

She said the upcoming by-polls in Punjab will not be a fight between “tiger and bat”, the election symbols for PML-N and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf respectively.

“This would be a battle for the progress of Punjab.”

She asked the participants of the convention to promise that none of them would sit at home on July 17.