DERA GHAZI KHAN, May 24: President Pervez Musharraf who addressed two public meetings in DG Khan and Rajanpur on Thursday failed to meet local expectations regarding local projects.

But for this the blame lies on PML legislators and politicians from the area who could not sink their differences to present the president a consensus charter of demand ahead of his arrival.

Before the visit, they were more concerned to make the host, MNA Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari, to sit with his arch rival district nazim Maqsood Leghari on the stage on May 24.

The general expectation was about the establishment of a medical college and university, dualisation of the Dera Ghazi Khan-Multan road, approval of bridges over Indus to connect Layyah with Taunsa and Mithan Kot with Rahim Yar Khan.

The provision of gas to Jampur tehsil of Rajanpur district has been a long standing demand of the locals since the gas pipeline laid there a decade ago has not been commissioned.

Among the announcements the president made were a cadet college at Fort Munro, which had already been announced by Farooq Ahmed khan Leghari when he was the president of Pakistan 10 years ago.

After concluding his speech, Musharraf returned to the dais on the demand of some politicians to say that the BZU campus in DGK would become a university in future. “We will also establish a medical college here,” he said.

But these announcements were made in haste without specifying any allocation or schedule.

During the speech, he spent more of his time in praising the Punjab Chief Minister.

The stadium where he addressed the public is in a state of neglect.

The president announced Rs50 million for the Dera district council Rs10 million for each tehsil and Rs2.5 million for each union council.

Host MNA Farooq Leghari demanded that Dhodak gas should be provided to Rajanpur and its tehsils, including Jampur.

In Rajanpur, Musharraf inaugurated 106-kilometer DG Khan-Rajanpur section of the Indus Highway completed recently.

He promised gas for Rajanpur and extension of Dajal Canal to irrigate barren land in the district.

He asked the Punjab chief minister to remit the water rate of those farmers of Taunsa Sharif whose lands were affected by floods last year.