LAHORE: Though Chief Minister Usman Buzdar has not met any of the party MPAs expressing their reservation against his governance failure, he once again met two MPAs belonging to the PML-N and PPP telling that his doors are open for the parliamentarians.

The PTI is viewing these meetings as a success in the wake of the upcoming Senate elections and describes it as “uprooting wickets of the PML-N and PPP”.

On the other hand, PTI’s like-minded group’s active member Mamoon Tarar surfaced on Thursday through a video message chiding the party’s disgruntled group leader Khwaja Daud Sulemani, who came on record to tell that the chief minister had failed to stem corruption in the province and lawlessness situation was precarious too.

Mr Tarar expressed his confidence in the chief minister and termed Mr Sulemani’s allegations baseless. He said he had created the like-minded group within the party about a year ago and disbanded it after his group members’ reservations were addressed. He claimed that now there was no MPA in contact with Mr Sulemani and the latter was only looking for his vested interests.

In separate meetings with PML-N MPA Kashif Mehmood and PPP MPA Raees Nabil Ahmed, the chief minister said his doors would always remain open as he wanted to wholeheartedly serve the masses. He said the development journey had been accelerated despite criticism and added that development works were being done with the consultation of the elected representatives.

The chief minister said separate development packages had been planned for every district and added that politics of development would prevail over chaos and the elements trying to promote instability were being alienated for losing their credibility.

Published in Dawn, January 29th, 2021