SPLGO 2012: PML-N forms committee to study the LG ordinance

‘Party workers and legal experts will be a part of the committee’.

KARACHI: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has set up a committee to study in detail the Sindh Peoples Local Government Ordinance.

This decision comes after the party was accused by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) of being ‘ill-informed’ about the ordinance. PML-N leader Zain Ansari is heading the committee and said that the party will thoroughly analyse the ordinance and study every clause in detail.

“The PPP has accused us and other parties of being ignorant about the ordinance. In reality, their own ministers and MPAs have no clue about it and they passed the ordinance in fifteen minutes without knowing what the system is about,” said Ansari.

He added that after doing its research, his party would propose amendments to the ordinance and request they be implemented. “If they fail to do so, we will ensure that in the next elections when we come into power, those proposals are enforced.”

The party’s provincial president, Ghous Ali Shah, said that the committee includes party workers, legal experts and local government experts. He added that advice will also be sought from social activists, analysts and people who have knowledge of the local administration at the district level. “The committee will prove that the ordinance is against Sindh and its people and is aimed at creating rifts among them. We will expose the government’s propaganda of dividing the province,” said Shah.

The party’s provincial information secretary, Ali Akbar Gujjar, said that the committee will inform people of how different the system is in cities and rural areas by translating the ordinance into Sindh and Urdu languages. “We will also hold awareness seminars,” said Gujjar.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 30^th, 2012.