MULTAN, Jan 11 Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP) leaders from Dera Ghazi Khan and Layyah districts allege the party has ignored the division in terms of representation and development.

PPP ticket-holder from PP-245 (DG Khan) Dr Saeed Buzdar says the party ignored the division in reserved seats for women and the Senate despite its good performance in the Feb 18 elections.

The party got six out of 12 National Assembly seats in the division but the party did not award even a single Senate seat to any leader from the area. Rawalpindi and Lahore divisions bagged all Senate seats despite their bad show in the general election. Most of the defeated candidates from Lahore and Rawalpindi were appointed as heads of government departments. Not only the Senate and reserved quota for women and the minorities, the division has also been ignored in party's Central Executive Committee and the Federal Council.

Layyah PPP District President Abdul Majeed Bhutta said the leadership had yet to announce any mega project for the district. He said he had raised the issue before senior leaders time and again.

Dr Buzdar said if the party gave attention to DG Khan district, he would deliver good results in the next election. He said he had almost defeated former president Farooq Leghari and his candidates in his hometown in the Feb 2008 election but a large-scale rigging snatched victory from him.

He said that in the last two years the district could not get a single penny from the federal government for the development of the area.

DG Khan District PPP President Shibli Shabkhez Ghauri said that the party could face difficulties in local council and general elections as the district had no representative in assemblies. He said that district lacked basic facilities such as health, education and basic infrastructure and the federal government could do a lot of work to improve the situation.

He demanded that the federal government establish a Benazir Bhutto federal university, a hospital and a medical institute on the patron of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences. He demanded that the prime minister extend motorway from Faisalabad to Multan and Dera Ghazi Khan.PPP Central Information Secretary Fauzia Wahab said that the party would accommodate PPP representatives from Dera Ghazi Khan division in government funds and party bodies.