PPP Provincial chapter declares provincial cabinet inefficient, opposes future alliance with Awami National Party

PPP Provincial chapter declares provincial cabinet inefficient, opposes future alliance with Awami National Party

Peshawar, Friday, December 23, 2011: Pakistan Peoples’ Party’s provincial chapter today regarded the provincial ministers as inefficient and advised the central command to avoid entering in to any alliance with the Awami National
Party (ANP) in future.

Sources told the media personnel on the condition of anonymity that participants of a meeting raised slogans against the PPP ministers and governor and vowed to oppose any future alliance with the ANP even if it was authorised
by the PPP co-chairperson, President Asif Ali Zardari.

The PPP activists and office-bearers, who attended the meeting in the provincial metropolis a few days back, also planned to hold a grand meeting in the near future.

“We welcomed the appointment of Senator Sardar Ali Khan as provincial president but we are not doing the politics of personalities,” said an activist, adding: “We have also conveyed our reservations to our new provincial president that we are opposing the alliance
with ANP.”

The sources said the meeting had been organised to finalise arrangements for the observance of Benazir Bhutto’s death anniversary but the infuriated workers turned it into a show of anti-party ministers. Governor Barrister Masood Kausar also came under severe
criticism for being “helpless” because of the ANP.

A former PPP candidate from provincial assembly constituency, PF-4 Peshawar, Kifayat Orakzai, however, expressed ignorance about any such meeting. He confirmed that the party’s candidates had held the meeting, where they had opposed the party’s alliance with
the ANP. He said the former PPP candidates had clearly conveyed to the party leadership to draw future line of action if they entered into an alliance with ANP against the workers’ demands.

Kifayat Orakzai said the PPP workers were disappointed during their own party’s rule. The former candidates, he added, had also the same feelings and they had conveyed their grievances to provincial president, Senator Sardar Ali Khan.

Kifayat Orakzai said the PPP ministers had ignored workers while the ANP had allocated millions of rupees to their former candidates for the development of the area and welfare of party workers. He said the PPP ministers were serving the personal interests
instead of the party interest.

Former PPP candidates including Ashfaq Khalil from PF-6, Iqbal from PF-3 and Misbahuddin from PF-11 attended the said meeting along with many party dissidents.

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