The Progressive and Lahore Businessmen Front Alliance (PLBFA) on Tuesday claimed it enjoyed full support of traders and businessmen from Bilal Ganj, Badami Bagh, Anarkali and Brandreth Road markets for the upcoming election of Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) 2015-16.
Led by PLBFA Chairman Chaudhry Muhammad Amjad and President Khalid Usman, a team of Alliance’s candidates for the election in both ‘corporate’ and ‘associate’ class visited these markets to muster support for the upcoming election.
Addressing the traders, the PLBFA leadership and candidates said all the parties in the alliance had joined hands to restore dignity of the country’s most premier chamber (LCCI) which, according to them, was marred because of the wrongdoings of the ruling PIAF-Founders Alliance and their policy of promoting their near and dear ones while ignoring all ordinary members. They vowed they would open the doors of the LCCI to all the members.
Speaking on the occasion, Muhammad Amjad and Khalid Usman said they were struggling to make the LCCI a platform working for resolution of the problems faced by the industrialists, traders and other business segments of Lahore.
They said their candidates had been selected from all segments of the businesses and representation had been given to almost all the important markets.
The PLBFA leaders said that more and more markets would be given representation in the standing committees to be formed after coming into power in the LCCI so as to have a consensus opinion on issues and wage a joint struggle for resolution of the problems faced by the business circles.
PLBFA Deputy Secretary Muhammad Ejaz Tanveer hoped that the PLBFA comprising four major opposition groups in the LCCI would win the forthcoming election with a thumping majority.
Tanveer further said they would raise all the business-related issues including the withholding tax on bank transactions at all the relevant forms, help ensure businessmen an access to cheaper loan for their working capital needs or expansion plans, and training/guidance of the members on different aspects of economy.