Race for Prime Minister slot: Fahim's elimination disappoints Sindh MPAs-elect

Local leaders of Pakistan Peoples Party have begun to give vent to their reservations over the elimination of Makhdoom Amin Fahim from the race to the Prime Minister's House and nomination of comparatively junior colleagues in the party for the race.
Talking to Business Recorder on Tuesday members-elect of Sindh Assembly said that decisions within the party were not being taken on merits. They said that Amin Fahim was in the run for the position of prime minister and his elimination from that position had brought disappointments.
They viewed this situation as the beginning of many other surprises the party stalwarts were likely to face. The nomination for the office of the prime minister has not been officially made, but there are more than three aspirants in the field. The MPAs-elect said that they (hopefuls) were pleading their cases and asking their colleague, MNAs-elect, to support them.
They said: "The number game in parliament is not in favour of Amin Fahim. But who would deny he deserves the office." The MPAs-elect said that the Pakistan Muslim League (N) had been given free hand to comment on the PPP's internal affairs and dictate its terms.
"What kind of majority the PPP has in the National Assembly and what kind of politics the PPP is trying to do? What of relations the PPP would have with the PML (N)?" they asked. They said that the PPP was against regionalism, provincialism and ethnic consideration in national politics, but the decisions were now being based on Punjab and Sindh considerations. "It is bad for the future of the country."
Makhdoom Jamil-uz-Zaman, son of Makhdoom Amin Fahim, was also present at a Sindh PPP parliamentary party meeting, but he did not talk to the press after the meeting was over.
But, his body language was not in consonance with the obtaining political scene and appeared as if refusing to accept decisions being taken in Islamabad. Though the nominations for the chief minister, speaker and parliamentary leader have been made in Sindh, it is yet to be seen how many of them are happy with the role they are assigned.
The parliamentary party has not yet decided how the MPAs-elect would be allocated offices. "Let us wait and see if I get the right department," said one MPA-elect, hoping to get a ministry.