KOHAT, Aug 28: Inauguration of same schemes by MNAs and MPAs in city areas and KP-37 constituency to gain political mileage has become a routine and resulting in wastage of taxpayers’ money. This is also creating personal enmities between old political workers due to involvement of huge sums of money in every function.

In the city area, provincial minister Qalb-i-Hassan and MNA Khursheed Begum have been pasting their signboards on schemes of petty construction works like pavement of streets, installation of transformers and hand pumps etc.

In the vast constituency of KP-37 both MNA Dilawar Shah and provincial housing minister Amjad Afridi do not lose a chance to gain credit for every project. Recently, Mr Shah and Mr Afridi held separate functions to inaugurate a same gas supply project and the information department covered activities of the provincial minister for the media, while the MNA whose efforts are said to be behind the project could not make headlines.

Mr Shah’s election to the National Assembly was not only an upset, but a shock for politicians like Iftikhar Hussian Gilani, Malik Asad, the Nawabzada family and Javed Ibrahim Paracha.

Earlier, on the eve of inauguration of work on Khushalgarh Bridge by former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani the housing minister had arranged a lavish function for him at his farm, while MNA Shah was announcing that Mr Gilani would attend lunch at his hujra.

However, the ceremony was held at an open place near the old Khushalgarh bridge at an open place. Both the provincial minister and MNA have been claiming since then that work on the Rs1.7 billion new bridge was started with his efforts.

Presently, both could be seen announcing power supply projects in different villages of the provincial constituency and pasting signboards of their names.

Residents of Kohat hope that people with a good family background would come forward to contest the upcoming general elections and provide leadership to them, as they are fed up with the politics of there current representatives.