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LAKKI MARWAT, Aug 9: The disgruntled workers of the Awami National Party on Friday organised a protest camp here against what they alleged corruption of the party's local leadership.
Talking to journalists the ANP leaders revealed that they had lodged complaints with the party high command against the irregularities and malpractices of the district leaders, but no action was taken.
They demanded of the provincial leadership to dissolve the ANP's district cabinet and constitute a committee to probe the matter.
“We have decided to hold a hunger strike camp on the grave of Khan Abdul Wali Khan in Wali Bagh, Charsadda on August 18 if the provincial bigwigs of the party did not remove their grievances”, they said, adding they would also stage a sit-in in Islamabad and organise a protest camp at the grave of Bacha Khan in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
NAZIMS’ MEET: Lakki Marwat local government members, at a meeting here on Friday, pledged to resist any move by the provincial government to curtail powers of the district and tehsil nazims or wind up the local government system. District nazim advocate Qudratullah Khan, Naurang tehsil nazim Bashir Khan and Lakki Marwat tehsil naib nazim Shaukat Hayat Khan Begukhel were among others who attended the event.
“The outburst of the ANP leadership about the local government system is the wastage of time as any amendment to this effect in the 1973 Constitution could only be made with the two thirds majority”, the participants explained.
The councillors said they would participate in the Aug 10 convention in Peshawar to chalk out a joint strategy for countering the move.
