HYDERABAD, May 24: Member, Sindh Council, Pakistan Muslim League, and former secretary information of its Hyderabad chapter, S.M. Ilyas has resigned from the party in protest against the attitude of district president and general secretary.

Addressing a press conference at the press club on Thursday he said the party’s popularity had gone down in the last four months since Mir Sher Mohammad Talpur and Qari Mushtaq Farooqui were nominated district president and general secretary, respectively.

Hyderabad had four talukas and 52 union councils but it lacked any party setup, he said. He claimed of joining the Pakistan Muslim League in 1984 and served the party till date in different capacities.

He said he remained district information secretary for many years but had been deprived of this post for being poor. He said party workers wanted to stage demonstrations and hunger strike but he stopped them from creating any division in the party. He said in the last four months neither district president nor general secretary made contact.

Mr Ilyas said President General Pervez Musharraf, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, Pakistan Muslim League chief Choudhry Shujaat Hussain and provincial president Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim were trying to strengthen and make the party of masses in Sindh, but Sher Mohammad and Qari Mushtaq had destroyed it.

Ilyas said that being an ideological worker, he gave half his life to the party but now when destruction was evident he thought of resigning from the basic membership.