PESHAWAR: After the election defeat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Prime Minister has decided to dissolve the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) organisations across the country and formed a constitutional committee.
Information Minister Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said that Imran Khan, as chairman PTI, has decided to dissolve all party organisations from the center to tehsil level. He said all parliamentary boards have also been dissolved and officials, including the chief organiser, have been removed from their posts. He informed that the Prime minister made it clear that for the next local government elections, the party leaders will not be allowed to field their relatives as he will himself monitor the nomination of candidates for every constituency.
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The decision was taken during the PTI leadership meeting chaired by Imran Khan. It was attended by Chief Minister Punjab Usman Bazdar, Governor Punjab Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar, Minister for Local Government Mahmood Rasheed, Senator Saifullah Niazi, Amir Kayani, Federal Ministers Fawad Chaudhry, Hamad Azhar, Shafqat Mehmood, Chief Minister KP Mehmood Khan, Asad Qaiser, Pervez Khattak, Murad Saeed and other senior leaders of the party.
The meeting reviewed the political and economic situation of the country and discussed preparations for the local government elections in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The meeting was also briefed on the administrative matters of the party in Punjab, the election results in KP and the party strategy for the next election. Imran Khan directed Chief Minister KP Mehmood Khan to organise party workers in the province as he claimed, PTI is still the most popular party in the country.
According to sources, during the party meeting, the PM was briefed on various government development projects. Imran Khan instructed the party not to repeat the previous mistakes in the local body elections in the 2nd phase in KP and said that he would decide candidates for elections.
The party has formed 21-member “supreme” committee to monitor preparations for the next election and award tickets. The committee will be headed by Imran Khan. Ali Amin Gandapur, Asad Umar from Sindh, Imran Ismail, Ali Zaidi, Qasim Suri, Governor Agha Zahoor and Federal Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry, Ejaz Chaudhry and Shirin Mazari are members of the committee.
Later on the briefing, Federal Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry said that the Prime Minister was apprised of the reasons for the defeat in the KP elections. He said that the premier expressed dissatisfaction and resentment over the fact that tickets were distributed among the political families.
Fawad Chaudhry said that a constitutional committee of PTI has been formed which will work and submit report to the Prime Minister. He said a new organisation will be formed through this committee. Fawad Chaudhry further said that PTI does not believe in family politics. “There will be no difference between PTI and other parties, if the practices of awarding tickets to family members was not stopped,” Fawad Chaudhry said.