ISLAMABAD, Oct 2: Senior vice-president of the Pakistan Muslim League Lt-Gen Majid Malik (rtd) on Sunday accused the Punjab chief minister of violating the local body law and PML central executive committee’s decision by nominating party-supported candidates for the slots of district, tehsil and town nazims.

Speaking at a news conference here on Sunday, candidate for district nazim Chakwal Gen Malik said the chief minister had violated the decision of the party central executive council, in which Prime Minster Shaukat Aziz participated.

Mr Malik said he had raised the issue in the CEC meeting with the leadership of the PML that nominations of candidates for the slots of district nazim, tehsil nazim and town nazim was creating misunderstanding and rifts among in the party.

The CEC, he claimed, had decided that the party would leave open all the controversial districts where the members of the party were contesting against each other. However, the very next day the chief minister had issued the statement announcing Sardar Ghulam Abbas a candidate of the PML for the slot of the Chakwal Nazim, he regretted.

According to the Local Government Ordinance, the elections of the local government, he maintained, were non-party basis. However, the chief minister was violating it.

Mr Malik said when the Supreme Court had declared his matriculation certificate valid, he contacted party secretary-general Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed and requested him to talk to the Punjab chief minister for leaving open the seat of Chakwal nazim. However, his request had been turned down.

He alleged that the chief secretary of Punjab was using the administration against the people contesting parallel to the candidates nominated by the Punjab chief minister.