PESHAWAR: Former Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf (PTI) member Tahir Umarzai has said that the provincial ruling party has completely failed to implement its 2013 election manifesto during the last four-year rule and that no significant changes have been witnessed even in the much-trumpeted education, health and local bodies sectors in the province.
“PTI had fought 2013 elections purely on ideology basis and got overwhelming success in the province. Imran Khan is now focusing on winning horses against committed and loyal leaders that would be counterproductive and would make very negative effects on party performance in 2018 general election,” he said.
Umarzai who was the architect of PTI’s 2013 election manifesto said that the PTI leadership has never made focus on the implementation of its manifesto during four years rule in Khyber Pakthunkhwa and paid only a lip service towards education and heath reforms.
He said that PTI’s constitution was in position of status-quo and slogans of bringing reforms in education, health and local bodies could not attracted attention of masses.
The former PTI leader said institutions and departments could not afford more experiments rather than focus should be made on overall improvement of infrastructure, capacity building of staff, addressing issues of funds and provision of missing facilities to schools, colleges, equipment and computerisation of record of government departments for quick resolution of peoples’ problems and prompt service delivery.
Despite tall claims, he said that PTI has completely failed to introduce uniform education system in the province as three types of education i.e government, private and religious seminary system were still in practice. He said that rampage of corruption in public sector departments continues in the province and slogans of eradication of corruption was limited only to social media and that nothing practical was on the ground.
