KHAIRPUR, Aug 31: A day after MNA Syed Ghous Ali Shah, the provincial chief of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), tendered his resignation from his post, the party’s Khairpur district president, Abdul Majeed Shaikh, and some other low-ranking office-bearers have also followed suit.

Mr Shah, who also held the office of the Sindh governor twice in the past, left for Saudi Arabia to perform Umra on Friday evening but before leaving his house in Khairpur for Karachi airport, he told the reporter of a Sindhi-language newspaper that he had resigned from the post of Sindh president of the PML-N.

The reporter quoted him as saying that he was perturbed over the top party leadership’s attitude towards him and the Sindh cadre. Elaborating, the reporter said, Mr Shah said the top party leaders were continuously ignoring him and had adopted an indifferent attitude towards party workers, who were being killed and implicated in fake cases.

“I repeatedly took up the matter with them in party meetings but no action was taken,” Mr Shah was quoted as saying.

According to the reporter, the dejected old guard of the PML-N also complained that the central leadership had stopped taking its Sindh chapter into confidence on all issues for quite some time.

He termed the central leaders’ treatment “biased against their Sindh counterparts and workers”, the reporter said.

Meanwhile, announcing his decision to follow suit, Abdul Majeed Shaikh told reporters on Saturday that he decided to quit his post to express solidarity with Mr Shah. Mr Shaikh also endorsed the outgoing leader’s views and said Mr Shah, along with all office-bearers and activists remained steadfast through thick and thin but never thought of alienating the party in hard times.

According to sources, several other office-bearers of the PML-N in Khairpur district have also resigned from their posts but none of them appeared ready to discuss the issue with the media before receiving a briefing on the issue and a future course of action.