While criticising party's leadership for ignoring the genuine workers, Pakistan People's Party (PPP) dissidents on Saturday announced launching a campaign to remove Party's co-chairman and President Asif Ali Zardari.
Arbab Khizar Hayat, a former Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) activist who had switched to PPP in late 2007, claimed that many dissident leaders contacted him to join his PPP (Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Group) to save the PPP of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, a faction formed by him the other day in Peshawar.
Addressing a news conference at National Press Club on Saturday, Khan along with former leader of the opposition in Punjab Assembly and ex-PPP's Provincial Health Minister, Rana Ikram Rabbani said that a drive (Zardari Hatao aur PPP Bachao) to remove Asif Ali Zardari and save the party has already been started in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces. He said that pressure groups were being created across the country to make the campaign a success.
Khan, who is convenor of his faction of the PPP, claimed that many bigwigs of the party had contacted him and it would be a serious setback to the ruling 'fake' PPP when there names would be disclosed. He however, declined disclosing their names. "They are the people who once were very close to Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, now being ignored, would also part their ways with the government and join them in the drive," he added.
He branded the ruling PPP as 'fake' saying that the beneficiaries of the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) should have resigned voluntarily. "The real workers of the party are not ready to accept the current 'fake' leadership of the PPP," he said. Lashing out at the government for its silence over the unabated US drone attacks in tribal areas, he said that tremendous increase witnessed in the US strikes inside Pakistan after handing powers over to elected PPP led-government by former president Pervez Musharraf. "I don't know why the government has continued policies of the Musharraf regime," he asked citing the continuation of the governors in four provinces appointed by the former military dictator.
He also clarified that his group of the PPP was not a new political party, but a group of genuine workers who joined their hands to save the party from the conspirators. The PPP leader also criticised the government for confrontation with the independent judiciary, saying that some 'ineligible' advisors in the government were not only intending to malign the party, but also create uncertainty in the country.
Speaking on the occasion, Rana Ikram Rabbani announced to join the group, saying that the genuine PPP workers wanted to take to task those who assassinated Benazir Bhutto. He also disagreed with the slogan "Democracy is the best revenge" saying that the PPP workers wanted justice not revenge.
He deplored that two and half years have been passed, but PPP led-government has failed to bring Benazir Bhutto's killers to justice. Rabbani said that he would disclose names of those who are involved in her assassination on right time. He also objected the way the party was being run, saying that those who had nothing to do with the PPP were enjoying all the luxuries, while the genuine workers were being ignored.
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