PPP Nadeem Afzal Chan has claimed that the PML-N was being presented as a “favourite” ahead of the general elections, which are due this year but are expected to be delayed.

“I am saying right from the first day that there is no level playing field,” he said in an interview with Aaj News show Faisla Aap Ka on Tuesday.

When asked by host Asma Shirazi for whom it is, he replied: “N-league.” He confirmed it and added that the PML-N was being portrayed as a “favourite”.

Chan echoed what his party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said earlier in the day in Sukkur. The PPP has been wary of the measures taken before the general elections.

He claimed that the PML-N was being provided support. According to Chan, PML-N has made groups in bureaucracy as they had served big time in the government, which was providing benefits to them.

He went on to add that the party would start speaking when they would completely know that the PML-N was getting complete support from the establishment.

“Believe me, we are untouchables for the administration just like we were in the Musharraf period and the Ziaul Haq period, a similar situation is right now,” he said and clarified that the PPP was close to interim Punjab Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi rather than the CM to them.

On the show, PML-N leader Irfan Siddiqui said that it has been decided that his party leader Nawaz Sharif would return to Pakistan on October 21 and take part in the election campaign. The former prime minister would present a narrative related to his performance when he was in power.

Without naming former president Gen (retd) Musharraf, he said that the PML-N supremo faced a dictator.

He was of the view that PPP chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s concern was right as the people who brought terrorists here should be held accountable.

PTI leader Saifullah Abro said that Siddiqui would only utter what his leader Nawaz would say and hoped that Nawaz would own 16 months of PDM’s rule.