LAHORE - In a bid to fill vacant party offices and assessing the suitability of Local Government polls candidates, PTI Punjab will start organisational tours of the province from March.
Some of the party offices in various districts of the province are lying vacant due to switching of loyalties by the elected PTI office-bearers to other political parties mainly the ruling party. As the Local Government polls are deferred for sometime because of LHC orders declaring delimitations for local elections carried out by the provincial government illegal while deciding number of petitions against the same.
All the political parties got ample time to reassess the suitability of their local polls contenders and the PTI using this opportunity would reexamine the suitability of their candidates during the organisational visits of the province.
Ijaz Chaudhry, PTI Punjab President, when contacted on Wednesday said, “We will start organisational tours of all the regions of the province to fill some vacant positions of elected office bearers who are either inactive or left the party. The second objective of the drive is to reassess the suitability of party probable for local elections using the opportunity of delay in local polls.” PTI had bifurcated the party into four regions in Punjab, which include Central, North, South and West, while all the mentioned chapters fall under the direct command of provincial chapter but of course with independent office bearers.
About party elected office bearers flight to the ruling party in good numbers, he insisted: There are very few elected party office bearers who joined other political parties and others who would be facing replacements include those which would fail to show any performance till next month.
He said that some of the elected office bearers were showing lethargic attitude and doing nothing for the party for quite sometime and they would be replaced with enthusiastic party workers if the incumbent fail to show any performance till next month. Regarding the process of new office bearers, he informed: We will fill the vacant party offices and replace the lethargic elected office bearers with the consultation of district Presidents and General Secretaries with the consent of regional Presidents and General Secretaries.
PTI Punjab President also informed that party would organise Local Bodies conventions at tehsil/municipal committee level in all the districts of the province to achieve the set goals of the organisational campaign.
The detailed schedule for the drive would be announced at the end of next month, while the organisational campaign would start and conclude in the month of March.