PESHAWAR: The Pakistan People’s Party has planned to mobilise workers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa through reorganisation.

The mobilisation campaign will be launched by special committees in their respective districts of the province on Monday (Feb 1).

The committees will do the task in three months before submitting separate reports on it to the party’s chairman, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.

Current office-bearers, angry leaders agree to cooperate with each other to strengthen party

The decisions in this respect were made during a meeting here on Friday, where both members of the party’s provincial cabinet and disgruntled leaders were in attendance.

Noted among participants were PPP provincial president Khan Zada Khan, senior vice president Najamuddin Khan, general secretary Engineer Mohammad Humayun Khan, information secretary Liaquat Shabab, former governor Barrister Masood Kausar, MPAs Saleem Khan, Sahibzada Sanaullah, Mohammad Ali Shah Bacha, former MNA Tariq Khattak, Noor Alam Khan, Syed Ayub Shah, Akbar Khan, Farzand Ali Khan Wazir and Shah Zulqarnain.

Participants said they had no personal grudges against each other and that all of them wanted the party to regain its past strong position in the province to win the next elections.

They spoke about the party’s basic philosophy and sacrifices of Bhuttos for the strengthening of democracy and the welfare of the common man, especially farmers and labourers.

The participants agreed that the party’s activists in all districts should hold meetings and plan the ways to address the grievances of disgruntled activists for the formation of the party’s organisational units either with consensus or through intra-party elections in a healthy democratic environment.

A spokesman for the PPP provincial president later said initially, the worker mobilisation committees would go to various districts of Hazara and Malakand divisions.

By passing a resolution, the PPP leaders demanded a judicial inquiry into the recent Bacha Khan University Charsadda attack for awarding exemplary punishment to the culprits.

They said had the government ordered a judicial inquiry into the Army Public School Peshawar massacre, the Bacha Khan University attack would have not happened.

The PPP leaders demanded proper compensation for the families of those who died or suffered injuries in the Charsadda terrorist attack.

They criticised the federal government’s plan to privatise PIA and said the party would fully resist the selloff of the national airline along with Pakistan Steel Mills and Wapda.

The PPP leaders said the sale of lucrative organisations at throwaway price was intolerable.

Syed Ayub Shah told Dawn that the disgruntled PPP leaders had no personal agenda and wanted the party’s reorganisation on solid grounds.

He said the meeting took place in a very pleasant manner wherein participants stressed the need for joint efforts to implement the Bhuttos’ philosophy and the party’s manifesto so that it could play the due role in the people’s welfare and country’s progress as the true left wing party.

Mr. Shah said the PPP basically represented the downtrodden people, farmers and labourers and therefore, it demanded such people’s participation in the decision-making process.

He said the party should form new organisations by developing consensus among local activists instead of ‘imposing’ office-bearers on them by nominations.

Published in Dawn, January 30th, 2016