HYDERABAD, Oct 19: People’s Party Parliamentarians chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim has said he has received many complaints about the government’s interference in the local bodies election scheduled for Monday.

Speaking at a news conference at the Dialdas Club here on Sunday night, the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy chief said he had received telephone calls from Khairpur about election malpractice and harassment of PPP candidates and councillors.

He said PPP leaders had even approached courts against the administration for committing excesses against the party activists but to no avail.

He said the ARD was doing everything possible to get rid of the military rule and restore a true democracy and supremacy of parliament and the Constitution.

Mr Fahim said the opposition had tried to end the deadlock over the Legal Framework Order and restore the parliamentary system but the government was dragging its feet on the issue.

He said the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal was claiming to have engaged the government in talks to save the democratic system but there were no positive results.

He said the ARD had taken a principled stand that an individual could not keep two posts of the head of the state and the head of the army as it constituted a violation of the Constitution.

He said the ARD was also not prepared to accept the National Security Council and article 58(2)(b).

The PPP leader said the government should bring the LFO in parliament in the shape of a bill if it wanted to make it a part of the Constitution.

Mr Fahim said it was a general practice that in order to create an artificial two-thirds majority in parliament, legislators were harassed and pressured to change their loyalties through the National Accountability Bureau and other agencies.