The disgruntled Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) activists have rejected the tripartite alliance for the local government elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and announced they would field own candidates on each seat if the party’s central leadership didn’t take effective steps to accept their demands, local media quoting party sources reported on Sunday.
Reports said that PPP Co-Chairman Asif Zardari called unhappy leaders for a meeting recently to know about their reservations about party policies.
They said the co-chairman gave a patient hearing to disgruntled leaders, promised to address their grievances and accommodate their suggestions, and formed a committee on local government elections in the province.
The PPP activist said Azam Afridi, a former district Peshawar nazim, was named member of the committee. He, however, quit the committee on the very next day over disagreement with the party’s provincial leadership on the election alliance with the ANP.
Some other party leaders, including provincial president Senator Khanzada Khan, former provincial president Anwar Saifullah Khan, Zahir Ali Shah, Rahim Dad Khan, former MNA Najamuddin Khan, Asma Alamgir and provincial President of women wing MPA Nighat Orakzai, are also members of the committee on local government elections.
The committee is tasked with supervising the process of selecting candidates and submitting report to the party’s leadership.
On other hand, PPP provincial general secretary Mohammad Humayun Khan said the decision to form tripartite alliance with the ANP and JUI-F was taken in consultation with the party’s central leadership and that anyone opposed to it couldn’t be sincere with the party.
