MANSEHRA, March 22: A spokesman for the independent MPAs group in the NWFP Assembly, Shahzada Mohammad Gustasap Khan, has said Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani’s government is fast losing support of the masses as he acts upon the ill-advice of his colleagues and advisers.

Speaking at a press conference here on Saturday, Gustasap Khan said: “The chief minister is a gentleman, and I advise him not to act upon the ill-advice of his colleagues.”

He said the chief minister during his recent visit to Mansehra used objectionable language against the independent’s group at the behest of a man having personal grudges against the group.

The spokesman categorically denied that he had ever talked of sending the government of Akram Durrani packing.

The independents, he told the newsmen, were in the larger interest of the province and for the enforcement of Sharia, and they had decided on extending unconditional support to the MMA government.

Gustasap Khan said the chief minister himself started ignoring the independent members of provincial assembly and pushed them against the wall. On the contrary, the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal government preferred non-elected people and thus breached privileges of the elected members, he maintained.—Correspondent