THE Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has planned to replace the temporary set-up of organisers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after Eidul Fitr but it is likely to face some serious internal problems in electing new office-bearers.

The party is facing differences at different levels and workers are blaming central leadership for not paying attention to reorganise the party in the province.

The differences between former general secretary Sar Anjam Khan and central leadership seems to become serious. The workers are of the opinion that if the leadership doesn’t resolve issues with the disgruntled group, it can create difficulties for the new office-bearers.

Similarly, this group will also create hurdles in the fielding of consensus candidates for the National and provincial assemblies in the next general elections.

Sar Anjam Khan served the party as central general secretary but in the new set-up he has not been given any responsibility.

“No, I have not been offered any office in the centre as Sartaj Aziz will represent Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as central general secretary of the party,” he told this scribe by telephone.

About the existing organising body of the party, he said that Mian brothers always took decisions without taking their colleagues into confidence. In the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, he said, the party leadership should take decisions with consensus otherwise workers would not accept any dictatorial step. “We will not accept Sardar Mehtab Abbasi as provincial president and will form our own pressure group within the party,” he said when asked about the new possible set-up.

According to him, the party is facing groupings in the province, particularly in Hazara division, and most of the party leaders are not ready to accept Sardar Mehtab as provincial president.

“Any Pashto speaking leaders like Anwar Kamal Khan, Abdul Subhan Khan, etc can become president and general secretary of the party,” he opinioned and added that many leaders in Punjab province like Raja Ashfaq, Rana Tenveer and even Chaudhry Nisar had developed serious differences with the other party leaders.

In the prevailing situation, he said, the party would not be able to win next elections as in Balochistan. Its position was already weak in Sindh, he added. “I have tendered resignation but the leadership has rejected it thrice and still I am of the view that bureaucrats should not be assigned party offices,” he added.

He said that workers were also not ready to accept Rahmat Salam as provincial general secretary.

However, Iqbal Zafar Jhagra claimed that efforts were being made to remove differences among party workers and the leadership had succeeded to great extent.

He said that party elections in the province would be held after Eidul Fitr and every worker had a right to contest election for any office. In Hazara division, he said, the issue of separate province had died down and his party leaders were united.

He said that his party was not in favour of creation of new provinces on the basis of ethnicity. He suggested that a national commission should be formed to take decisions in the larger interests of the country.

About election alliance with other parties, he said that understanding had been developed for the time being only with PML-likeminded.

The provincial organising general secretary Rahmat Salam Khattak claimed that he had enrolled about 500,000 new members in the province.