MUZAFFARABAD, June 27: Four former AJK ministers and a parliamentary secretary, whose resignations were accepted two months back, will be reinducted into the cabinet next month, one of them disclosed here on Saturday.

The former ministers - Shah Ghulam Qadir, Chaudhry Tariq Farooq, Chaudhry Masood Khalid and Hafiz Hamid Raza - and parliamentary secretary Mir Ali Akbar had submitted their resignations to Muslim Conference supreme leader Sardar Abdul Qayyum in February in protest against the policies of Prime Minister Sardar Sikandar Hayat.

Talking to newsmen, Tariq Farooq said the resignations were accepted under an agreement between the prime minister and Muslim Conference President Sardar Attique Ahmed. "The agreement was brokered and guaranteed by our sympathizers," he said, referring to the powers that be.

"Accepting or quitting a ministry makes no difference. But our priority has always been that our government should look like a party government and not a coalition setup," he remarked, apparently referring to the official blessings to a group of the People's Party.

"Difference of opinion is the spirit of the parliamentary democratic system but it should not take the colour of personal differences," he said.

He said he and his colleagues had complaints but the brokers of the agreement had assured them that those would be addressed.

"No doubt we are bound by party discipline. But when you are denied the right to speak within the closed doors you are left with no choice but to speak outside," he said in response to a question. "But now there is complete harmony between the party and the government," he said.

He denied that there had been any section in the agreement regarding the replacement of Legislative Assembly Speaker Sardar Siab Khalid.

Asked what portfolio they would demand, Tariq Farooq said allotment of portfolios was the prerogative of the prime minister and they had never challenged that authority.

He said the prime minister was a senior leader and "now his attitude is also positive."

He asserted that the resignations had benefited the party and its government as they gave a chance to the latter for reformation.

He dispelled the impression that the lawmakers were showing indifference towards participation in the budget debate.

He said the leader of the opposition had to open the budget system but it appeared that he was not prepared to do that.