HYDERABAD, July 14: The dissident group of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League, comprising office-bearers of the party’s labour, youth and ladies wings, on Saturday once again accused the political secretary to the Sindh chief minister, Senator Abdul Ghaffar Qureshi of destroying the party in Hyderabad district.

A member of the party’s central committee, Samiuddin Sajid, who spoke for the group at a news conference at the press club that hundreds of committed party workers had resigned from the party’s basic membership during the last one and a half month while many senior workers had been on hunger strike outside the press club for last 13 days but the senator appeared unfazed about all these developments.

Mr Sajis was accompanied by central vice-president of ladies wing, Begum Manzar Rawal, provincial general secretary Ms Nasreen Riaz, provincial youth wing vice-president Khalid Butt, district president labour wing and Syed Wali Haider.

He alleged that Mr Qureshi’s sole interest was to get his brother elected to the provincial or national assembly seat from Mirpurkhas. Moreover, the senator called the inefficient and inactive district office-bearers at the chief minister's house and asked them to make efforts for stopping protest against him.

He said that the senator was trying to keep sincere and devoted party leaders away from the chief minister whom he declared hero of Sindh. But his political adviser had completely failed to highlight the revolutionary steps taken by him for the development of the province, he added.

Mr Sajid said that the party’s office-bearers, with the blessings of Mr Qureshi and the support of administration, were threatening senior Muslim Leaguers with dire consequences including registration of false cases against them.

He said that even he himself was being threatened that he would be removed from the central working committee of the party. The disgruntled workers had reached a decision, which he would disclose at a press conference on Sunday, he announced.