Maryam files nomination papers for four seats.

LAHORE -- PML-N Senior Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Thursday, perhaps putting her popularity to test and contesting elections for the first time as well as reportedly eyeing the coveted Punjab chief minister slot if her party manages to secure enough seats in the province, has filed nomination papers from four constituencies -- three from Lahore and one from Gujranwala -- for the upcoming provincial polls.

Maryam filed nomination papers from three Lahore constituencies, PP-149, PP-173 and PP-158. Besides Lahore, she has also filed her papers for one Gujranwala constituency, PP-63.

Strangely a week ago, she had bashed PTI chief Imran Khan for contesting elections from multiple constituencies in the recently held by-elections.

Addressing the PML-N Punjab youth district coordinators, Maryam had said if she were the prime minister, she would recover the expenses incurred in the elections of all the seats that Imran had won; reminding the PTI chief that polls were not held free of charge.

Her spokesperson, Zeeshan Malik, however clarified that the decision of where Maryam would contest elections from one of the four constituencies was yet to be made. When asked that the PML-N leader would contest for just one seat or more, Zeeshan said that decision rested with the party.

The seats chosen by Maryam are PML-N strongholds. The constituency of Lahore's PP-149, which was earlier known as PP-153, was won by PML-N candidate Khawaja Imran Khan Nazir, who had bagged around 44,000 votes while the runner-up, a PTI candidate, had only obtained about 19,000 votes.

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