HYDERABAD, Jan 7: Members of central and Sindh councils and office-bearers of ruling Pakistan Muslim League on Sunday announced their resignation from the party’s basic membership over what they described as the leadership’s indifference towards sincere workers.

Rafique Magsi, Majid Khaskheli, Amjad Hussain Abro, Abdul Haq Thebo and Shabbir Memon told a news conference at the press club that they were among at least 200 party workers who had resigned.

They complained that the leadership had completely ignored the sincere and committed workers since the days of Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali’s premiership. They said that the opportunists and people with vested interests who were at the helm of affairs in the party had committed excesses not only against the provincial and district office-bearers and workers but also against common people during last four years.

Their attitude forced many sincere leaders like Chaudhry Saifullah, Thakur Nazeer Kaimkhani and Haji Niaz Sindha from Hyderabad to desert the party, they said.

Only recently when they requested that the Hyderabad Development Authority (HDA) provide them machines to drain out rainwater from Qasimabad and Latifabad, a false case was registered against them to discourage their activities.

They were highly critical of Badar Channa, OSD to the chief minister, who they charged was responsible for the election of non-party candidates in Qasimabad taluka as nazims and naib nazims.

They alleged that the provincial leadership and chief minister supported people like Mr. Channa who had to his name properties worth tens of millions of rupees at the cost of sincere and committed workers.

They said that they had complained to Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, Mushahid Hussain Syed, Iqbal Dar and Shaikh Rasheed about the injustices from time to time but nobody took their cries seriously. They also approached the provincial president and general secretary but to no avail, they said.

Recently the party was awarded 48 seats in the education department in Hyderabad but not a single party worker was provided any job while some seats were even sold out to the highest bidders, they alleged, adding that the circumstances had left them with no other option but to resign.