ARD chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim has said that tendering resignations by the assembly members belonging to the PPPP is the part of a plan aimed at paving the way for formation of a new political party in the country.
"This all is being done by certain 'forces' at the behest of President General Pervez Musharraf, who would soon sideline the ruling PML-Q," Makhdoom Amin said while talking to PPI here at a hotel on Thursday night.
ARD chief, who was here to lead a rally and address a public meeting on Thursday evening, said those who have tendered resignations were bank defaulters and the people of Pakistan would soon learn that the rulers would declare them cleared of all the loans and corruption charges.
To a query, he said there were no chances of joining hands with the MMA as it has proved to be the 'B' team of General Musharraf by supporting LFO and accepting him as the president in uniform.
On the differences developed among the PPP and the PML-N over the joining of the PPP by Mian Anwarul Haq, he said the matter has been referred to a committee constituted by the ARD's late chairman Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan. The committee was already looking into 10 such other cases, he added.
Makhdoom Amin said: "A political party can never close its doors to any new entrant and in case of the PPP there are long queues to join it, however, the party would decide such matters on merit basis."
To another question, he said Ms. Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif have empowered the ARD leadership to decide about their return to the country at a suitable time.
Earlier, addressing a public meeting, Amin Fahim said the ARD movement has entered in a decisive round that would end only on the removal of a general from the power.
Secretary general ARD Zafar Iqbal, Syed Zafar Ali Shah and other leaders also addressed the public meeting.