TAXILA, Oct 11: The PML local leaders have accused PML-N of political victimisation of its workers to buy their loyalties and malpractices through appointing their “own persons” in police and administration.

Speaking at a press conference here on Saturday, PML MPA Shahfeeq Khan along with general secretary of the party, district Rawalpindi chapter, and Tehsil Nazim Taxila Sadeeq Khan alleged that the PML-N activists were involved in wheat flour smuggling and hoarding of the commodity.

They said the PML-N was on the path of confrontation and vengeance and that the PML workers were being targeted for wrong reasons.

“Tall claims of the provincial government of good governance notwithstanding, people are suffering from the involvement of politics in every institution, especially police, revenue and education departments,” they said.

They claimed that unelected people who have no any office had been given powers to exercise powers in various departments of the administration and added that police instead of protecting life and property of the common man were safeguarding the interests of the N-league workers.

They alleged that an official of the Taxila police station gave a clean chit to three thieves who were arrested red-handed stealing valuables from a sensitive defence organization after talking illegal gratification of Rs170,000.

They accused the PML-N workers of being in glove with the police and food department in wheat flour hoarding and smuggling from Taxila to Haripur.

They termed the provincial government programme of provision roti at subsidised rates as an eyewash and claimed that no single point was available in the entire city for this purpose.

They claimed that officials had been appointed in the revenue department because of their affiliation with the PML-N.

“Hundreds of fake FIRs have been lodged against our supporters to win their loyalties," they said, adding that the local bodies system had been paralysed and development projects had been stopped.