Opposition parties demand timely LG polls in KP

The ANP, JUI-F and PPP havedecided to fully participate in the upcoming local government elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and demanded the provincial government to hold timely local bodies polls in the province.
The meeting of the tripartite held at the residence of JUI-F leader Pir Alamzeb in Haripur, Abbottabad, was attended by ANP leaders Mian Iftikhar Hussain, Namroz Khan and Aqil Shah; PPP leaders Rahimdad Khan and Shuja Salim Khan; JUI-F Maulana Atta-ur-Rehman and Abdul Jalil Jan and other district-level activities and workers of tri-parties.
The tripartite alliance demanded the government to immediate hold local bodies' elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It said that the incumbent provincial government had completely failed to overcome the growing issues of lawlessness, kidnapping for ransom, unemployment and other major issues of the general masses, which proved a bad-governance in the province.
The meeting alleged that the PTI government had not been elected with power of votes, but the election results were engineered in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Despite the fact, the meeting said the alliance parties had accepted the results and respect the opinion of the general masses, because the parties wanted to nurture democracy in the country.
The tri-parties would win the upcoming local bodies' elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, it added. Like D I Khan and Southern district, the meeting decided to form a fifteen-member committee with consultation of leaders of tri-parties in Hazara division, in which five members would be included from each party. The committees were also formed at district levels. If any dispute or differences appeared, it would be resolved with proper consultation by the district level committees, the meeting said.
The meeting said the tri-parties had fully supported each others, while for district Toghar, ANP Syed Shahzada, for Kohistan PPP Saiful Mulk, for Manshera JUI-F Hidayatullah Shah, for battagram ANP Qari Saif, for Abbottabad Gul Zar Abbasi, for Haripur Pir Syed Alam Shah nominated as presidents of their respective committees.