PESHAWAR, Nov 3: The president of his faction of the Pakistan People’s Party, Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, has said the unity of the masses can be gauged through the October elections as they voted for those political parties which worked for their rights.

Speaking at a public meeting in Gul Bagh Tangi, Charsadda, on Saturday, he said the political acumen of the people was exhibited through the rejection of vested interests in the recent polls. Now the voters were politically conscious and they could no more be hoodwinked through hollow slogans, he added.

On this occasion, Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party leaders Haji Momin Khan, Shakir Khan and Mirzaman along with their families and scores of supporters announced joining of the PPP(S). They reposed their full confidence in the leadership of Sherpao.

MPA-elect Sikandar Hayat Sherpao, party’s central deputy general secretary Ghani Mohammad Khan and former MPA Jawed Iqbal Khan were also present.

Welcoming the newcomers in party ranks, he said they would give new strength to the party and enable it to represent the aspirations of the people at large.

He paid tributes to the people for having rejected the “self-styled champions of the Pakhtoons’ rights.” The tripartite alliance, he said, had removed the impression about the supremacy of a certain political party in Charsadda.

His party, he claimed, had adopted pragmatic measures for the uplift of the people so as to remove their grievances. The PPP(S) had emerged the second largest party in the NWFP due to its glorious record, he added.

Sherpao said party committees had been formed which would resolve the disputes between the landowners and tenants. He further said: “We would not resist legal actions but unlawful ones would be opposed with full force.”