HYDERABAD, Feb 24: People's Party Parliamentarians leader and former MNA Abdul Sattar Sirewal has tendered his resignation from the basic membership of the party due to what he termed indifferent attitude of leaders.

Announcing his resignation at a press conference at the Hyderabad press club on Thursday, Mr Sirewal said the main cause of leaving the party was not the party programme but individuals who were ruling the party in the absence of chairperson Benazir Bhutto.

He said he had joined the PPP in 1974 and was elected a councillor in 1979. He said he had resigned from the post to join the MRD movement on the orders of the party leadership and was imprisoned for four months.

He said he remained in exile for 12 months due to political victimisation of Jam Sadiq Ali Junejo. He said he was elected MNA on the PPP ticket in 1993 and 1996 and when the party gave his ticket to Ghulam Ali Nizamani in the general elections 2002, he supported him whole-heartedly.