PML-N will give party tickets in LG elections to loyal workers: Hamza Shahbaz

Lahore: Central PML-N leader Hamza Shahbaz MNA has said that party tickets in local bodies elections in Punjab will be given to those workers who did not leave the party during worst period of dictatorship. He said that party is ready to support its committed workers and will act upon their proposals. He announced that meeting of district office-bearers will be held after every two months and he will also hold meetings with party workers in different districts.

He expressed these views while addressing a meeting of district office-bearers regarding local bodies elections at Model Town. Hamza Shahbaz said that PML-N has always given respect to party workers and party workers have been elected in national and provincial assembly as well as senate elections. He made it clear that those party workers who will not get tickets in local bodies election will be nominated on five specified posts in every ward and others will be adjusted in peace & reconciliation committees and other places.

Hamza Shahbaz said that participation of Party Presidents and General Secretaries in the meeting of district development has been made compulsory. Similarly, he said that besides assembly members, party office-bearers will also be given due consideration in the provision of jobs. He said that there are reservations regarding behavior of officers in some districts which will be removed and administration will give due importance to party workers. Hamza Shahbaz said that government is implementing the agenda of development and progress and besides controlling terrorism, elimination of energy crisis is also priority of the Punjab government. He said that Punjab government will produce 5000 megawatt electricity.

Senator Masood Majeed, Minister of State Baleegh-ur-Rehman, Provincial Ministers Raja Ashfaq Sarwar and Nadeem Kamran while briefing the meeting regarding the procedure of localbodies elections in Punjab said that one thousand forms are being given in every constituency of national assembly. He said that Chairmen will deposit ten thousand rupees and Vice Chairmen and councilors five thousand rupees as party fee. President PML-N Lahore and MNA Pervaiz Malik, MNA Ishtiaq Mehr, President Muslim League-N Gujrat Malik Hanif Awan, President Vehari Mian Imran Daultana and others while speaking on the occasion, said that party organizations are working actively at district level. Member National Assembly Shazia Ashfaq and Presidents and General Secretaries of various districts expressed the confidence that PML-N will win localbodies elections with heavy majority. The meeting also congratulated Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif over the decision of judicial commission.