LAHORE, April 29: Senior Minister Raja Riaz said on Tuesday the PPP had no objection to the administrative changes in Punjab, but the officers not accommodating his party’s MPAs would not be allowed to continue.

Talking to reporters at his Civil Secretariat office, he said the PPP was a junior coalition partner with the PML-N in Punjab and it had given the latter a free hand to run the government or make administrative adjustments.

He said the six-member committee, formed by PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif, was due to meet on May 2 to discuss issues relating to the administrative machinery’s attitude towards the PPP MPAs and ministers.

“We will discuss the problems being faced by our MPAs. We do not have any objection to the posting of any officer, but those not listening to the genuine problems of our MPAs will have to go,” he said.

Raja Riaz said certainly honest officers should be posted everywhere in the province, but they should also resolve problems of the people. He said he had asked the PPP ministers to start functioning with the teams of staff given to them with the assurance that those found not suitable would be transferred.

He said he had asked the chief secretary to send him a panel of three officers so that he could select the secretary of his department. —Staff Reporter