PESHAWAR, Dec 18: The central and provincial leadership of Pakistan People’s Party on Tuesday came under criticism during a convention of disgruntled workers, who complained of being ignored during the formation of the party’s provincial and district level cabinets.

Noted among those in attendance were Nazneen Badshah, Fazal Wahid, Haji Iftikhar, Maulana Habibul Rehman, Haji Waseemullah, Noor Zameen, Wali Babar, Mohammad Riaz and Nadeem Khan.

The participants expressed reservations about nominations for the party cabinets at provincial and district levels in the province and said many senior activists had been ignored.

They warned that if the provincial president of PPP didn’t take corrective measures, then workers would oppose the party candidates in the coming elections.

The participants said the leadership had failed to resolve problems being faced by the workers despite repeated appeals.

They said the ideological workers have no respect in the party, because only hand picked people were accommodated in the cabinets of the party every time.

Mr Nazneen said PPP provincial president Anwar Saifullah Khan had promised that he would take workers Ittehad before formation of provincial and district cabinets of the party in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. “But he did not honor his commitment and repeated the past mistakes while naming the new office bearers,” he alleged.

The nomination policy of old faces on the key seats; he said was meant to deprive old workers of their rights. He said that the PPP workers were joining other political parties due to wrong policies of party leadership at centre and provincial level. The participants through a unanimously adopted resolution demanded awarding of tickets to ideological workers in the next general elections and asked the leadership to stop discriminatory policies.

Later, the people also held a protest demonstration at Sher Shah Soori Road and shouted slogans against the nominations in the party and demanded provision of the jobs to party workers.