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| ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) has lost much of its ground in the Thursday by-polls mainly for the reason that it failed to fulfill any of its election promises, most importantly the holding of local bodies polls within 90 days of its rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. This is a setback for the PTI government because the party had made tall claims of having done its homework on bringing a local bodies system to ensure that people’s problems were resolved at the local level, undertaking development and socio-economic work and had claimed to have finalised the basic structure of the local government by devolving powers to the village level. A high-level meeting of the party attended by the party chairman in Islamabad on Friday was asked to expedite the finalisation of the proposed local government law to be tabled in the provincial assembly next month. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is no different from the other three provinces in failing to implement the judgement of the Supreme Court which bound all the provinces and the cantonments, including the federal territory Islamabad, to complete the local bodies’ elections process by September. Another reason for this delay is attributed to the dichotomy of powers. Though the incumbent chief minister is the constitutional chief executive, provincial affairs are also separately overseen by the party chairman himself through the Chief Secretary Shehzad Arbab whereas another party stalwart, Jahangir Tareen, is also said to be issuing instructions. Many meetings have so far been held at the KP house in which the party leaders, including Imran Khan and his close aides, have participated to ponder over various reforms in provincial governance and all these meetings were held without the presence of the KP CM. The PTI oversight committee set up under the head of Imran Khan has been working overtime to put the proposed reforms on track but the results are not visible yet. A former PTI core member Akbar S Babar says the party has been hijacked by the ‘newcomers’ who have occupied all the main party offices to oust/sideline the old guard. As a result, Imran Khan’s grip on the party has been eroded. One example of the overall deviation is that the dual office holders have resisted the separation of the party offices from public offices. Talking to this correspondent, Babar stated that the party had prepared a comprehensive plan to devolve powers to the local level through the local bodies’ polls within 90 days but it seems the forces of the status quo have blocked it. A party source confided to this correspondent that the main reason for the KP government’s sticking to the status quo and following the other provinces on many counts, including its failure to finalise the local bodies’ law,Michael Kors Outlet, was that most of the people sitting at the helm come from the forces of the status quo. For that matter, the source said the PTI was the only political entity in the country which at present is occupied by office-bearers who joined it only days and months back sidelining those who had put in hard work to establish it for 15 to 16 years. Sans Imran Khan, the offices of senior vice chairman, president and information secretary etc. all come through nominations or the intra-party polls which were reportedly marred by massive manipulations. However,Michael Kors Purses, when asked about the blame for the party’s takeover by the status quo forces, the deputy secretary information Dr Israr Shah said “I put it the other way as in my opinion the party was run as an NGO till October 22 when new blood came in to put the party on the right track as a political party of change”. He claimed that the new entrants who had left their parties seeing the better political approach of the PTI have made a real difference in their vote bank for the party. Former party spokesman and MNA Shafqat Mehmood, however, brushed aside the claims that the PTI had lost ground in the by-polls by saying: “If we have lost two seats in Peshawar and Mianwali we have also won the seat of the JUI-F in Lakki Marwat”. Without responding to the view that the party was occupied by new entrants who come from the status quo forces and were a big hurdle in implementing the party’s agenda of change, he said the party has fared well in the general elections and in the by-elections. |
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