Local bodies’ heads: No nepotism in choosing leaders vows PML-N

PML-N leadership aims to strengthen and expand as a political party and to promote itself with a new face and image

LAHORE:

Top leaders of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Saturday pledged to choose the best among party loyalists and young active supporters for the top positions of the local governments at the town, tehsil and district levels.

They also decided that the party would not support the aspiring relatives of the party ministers and parliamentarians.

According to sources, the PML-N leadership has been contemplating the situation at the initial stages of formation of the local governments.



The party leadership aims to strengthen and expand as a political party and to promote itself with a new face and image.

Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and other leaders discussed the situation in the wake of the final stages of the local body elections and concluded that bringing forth relatives of federal and provincial ministers and members of the National Assembly and provincial assemblies will cast a negative image of the party and, therefore, old loyal workers and young new active supporters should be given chances to head the local governments.

This would expand the party at grass root levels and strengthen it, they added.

PML-N leads in Punjab with 560 seats, followed by independents with 513

They decided that the party will ensure that this policy is implemented while nominating chiefs for municipal corporations, district councils and metropolitan corporations.

Sources close to the party revealed that despite this decision by their leadership, various relatives of party members are scrambling to win nominations as the chiefs of local bodies.


Published in The Express Tribune, December 6^th, 2015.