LAHORE: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) desires to contest polls on the basis of issues and not personalities and thus is not worried about departure of electables from the party.

`We`re relieved at the desertions as many of those parting ways with us had been earning a bad name for the party,` central information secretary Dr Nafeesa Shah said at Meet the Press programme here onWednesday.

She was replying to a question about weakening support of the party in Punjab.

`We`re happy to see that those who become a liability for the PPP are now nesting in the PTI and we`ll be able to introduce faces in the elections,` she said.

Punjab Information Secretary Chaudhry Manzoor said the party wished to contest the polls on the basis of issues and not personalities.

Recalling party chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari`s pledgethat he wanted to go to polls like his maternal grandfather (Zulfikar Ali Bhutto), he said the late Bhutto didn`t have the company of electables then in 1971.

Dr Nafeesa Shah won`t clearly state what her party`s reaction would be if elections were delayed and if it would join hands with other parties against delaying the electoral exercise.

She said the PPP wanted the polls in time and that it would stand with the masses and democracy in case of threat to the demo-cratic project and welcome whosoever chose to become its partner in the struggle for democracy.

The PPP leader doesn`t see any contradiction in co-chairperson Asif Zardari`s apparently pro-establishment gestures and BilawalBhutto`s revolutionary posture.

Calling the Sharifs a parallel establishment, she said both the PPP leaders were unanimous in seeking accountability of the PML-N leadership which, she claimed, was weakening parliament, democracy and the state itself.