GUJRAT, Aug 6: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz President Nawaz Sharif has convened a meeting of party’s disgruntled men from Gujrat who resigned from party offices in protest against Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s indifference to them and his tilt toward members of the forward bloc as well as officials of the district administration.

The meeting will be held at Sharif’s Raiwind residence at 9:30am on Aug 7.

Party sources said that PML-N provincial general secretary Raja Ashfaq Sarwar and other leaders tried to persuade Malik Hanif Awan to withdraw his resignation from the office of the district president, but he refused.

According to the sources, Awan told the party leaders that he resigned as PML-N Gujrat president, but he did not surrender the party membership and he would stay with the party as a worker.

Chaudhry Farrukh Majeed, who resigned as party’s senior vice president in Gujrat, attended party leaders’ phone calls and told them that party workers would not listen to anybody except Nawaz Sharif. As a result, Tuesday’s meeting was scheduled.

A consultative meeting of party’s disgruntled group was held here on Monday evening to evolve a strategy for the future course of action.