The provincial leadership of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) a junior coalition partner in NWFP government has called for the replacement of the incumbent Governor Owais Ahmad Ghani with a Jiala governor to bring an end to the sense of deprivation amongst the party workers in the province.
Addressing a press conference here at Peshawar Press Club, provincial deputy secretary general of PPP Zulfikar Afghani flanked by city president and former candidate from NA-1, Syed Ayub Shah, Saeed Ahmad Khan, Agha Mazhar Hussein demanded of both President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani to replace the NWFP governor with a PPP man.
He said that senior partner Awami National Party (ANP) was leading coalition government of NWFP while the post of governor was the right of Pakistan People's Party. He said that the appointment of PPP man would help bring end to the sense of deprivation amongst the party workers.
Criticising the role of ANP in the coalition government, Afghani alleged that chief minister is making interference in the departments of the ministers of PPP and they are rendered completely powerless. The treatment met out to the ministers of PPP at the hands of ANP led government is spreading unrest amongst the PPP workers.
He said that Zakat chairmen in all districts of the province were selected from amongst the ANP workers while provincial leadership and provincial ministers of PPP were never taken into confidence in this regard and their workers were being ignored while making new appointments.
About controversy over the naming of Mardan University, he said the University should be named as 'Benazir Bhutto University' as the slain leader herself had suggested for the establishment of the university in the district. "No name other than Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University will be accepted by the workers of PPP," warned Afghani.
Regarding the prevailing flour crisis in the province, he said that there was no check over the flour dealers and one Roti was being sold at Rs six and 20 kilogram bag of flour was being sold at Rs 720 in the province while in Punjab the price of bread was Rs two and bag of 20 kg was available at Rs 320 in the holy month of Ramazan, which he termed sheer injustice with the people of NWFP. The PPP activist called strict check on the smuggling of flour to Afghanistan.
Condemning the suicide attack on the ANP chief Asfandyar Wali Khan, Afghani said that Islam does not allow anyone to commit suicide attacks.
He demanded of both President and co-chairman of PPP Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani to call a meeting of the workers of PPP NWFP to inform them about the ANP government's injustice towards the party ministers in the cabinet. He called for induction of two more ministers in NWFP cabinet and one from Peshawar in the federal cabinet.
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