SWABI, Jan 9: District Nazim Sher Zaman Sher, Tehsil Nazim Masood Jabar and members of the district and Tehsil councils on Thursday said that the motives of the federal and provincial ministers to harm the local council system, would be resisted.

Speaking to reporters at a gathering of the members of the district and Tehsil councils, Mr Sher said that through the local bodies system the power had been transferred to the grassroots level and the poor section of the society had been benefited.

He said that the parliamentarians should not interfere in the local bodies affairs.

Ministers, MNAs, MPAs and the district government were part of a system and should make collaborative efforts and extend cooperation to each other to serve the people.

He said: “We have identical objectives and when the parliamentarians really want to work for the welfare of the people, the district government would cooperate with them.”

Mr Jabar said that he had planned to invite MNAs and MPAs of the district for a meeting within a week to devise a joint strategy for the welfare work.

He demanded that the NWFP government should release Rs240 million for the urban development schemes as it was schedule for the current month.

District Naib Nazim Mohammed Jamil said that instead of weakening the local bodies system, the new democratic governments in the centre and provinces should strengthen it.

Even the NWFP chief minister, he said, had told the Nazimeen in a meeting that each system needs reforms and for the reforms in the local bodies system the local government commission had been established.