THATTA, June 7: Appointment of a new district People’s Party body, under the directives of party chairperson Benazir Bhutto, has developed differences in the People’s Party Parliamentarians in the Thatta district.
In the new set-up, former MNA Arbab Wazir Ahmed Memon, a founder member of the party, and Pir Ghulam Rehmani, a relatively fresh entrant, have been appointed as district president and general secretary for the Thatta district.
Other posts will be filled by joint nominees of the two office-bearers, a party source told Dawn here on Wednesday.
Some local leaders of the People’s Party alleged that Arbab Wazir Memon and Pir Ghulam Rehmani were known as ‘off-screen’ players of the main rival political group of the PPP, i.e Shirazi group.
Speaking at an emergency press conference at the press club late on Tuesday, district president Syed Iqbal Shah, PPP Sindh council member Abdul Sattar Lohar, Thatta taluka president Abdul Khaliq Soomro, taluka Mirpur Bathoro Wahid Parhiar, party’s general secretary for taluka Shah Bundar, Abdul Qadir Kumbhar and district SPSF president Manzoor Sarki said they always played tactics to defeat party candidates fielded against Shirazi’s candidates.
It was due to their conspiracies that the Shirazi group had dominated the Thatta district which had been a fort of
the party over a decade, they said.
They said that keeping in mind their betrayal, entrusting them such an important posts again would prove fatal. They advised the party high-ups to honour the just demand of party’s activists and withdraw its decision.
Activists have announced a protest against the decision outside the Bilawal House Karachi on Thursday.
When contacted, Arbab Wazir and Pir Ghulam Rehmani said the party was a democratic party where everyone was having a right to protest or give his opinion.
Expression of the right was a positive norm in the party, but they had been appointed by the party chairperson, workers should honour her decision, they said.
On the other hand, a majority of party activists wanted MPA Sassui Palijo as a new party president of the district.