HARIPUR: Outgoing Tehsil Council chairman Samiullah Khan on Thursday said the Tehsil Council Haripur was the only council in the province that went without development funds throughout its four-year tenure.
He was addressing the council’s farewell session, which was attended by the members belonging to all political parties.The last session expressed their concern over how the PTI government treated the representatives against the vision of founder chairman Imran Khan. The tehsil chairman said that when the former chief minister Mahmood Khan realized that PTI’s backed candidates would lose the elections, he amended the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Local Government Act 2013 changing the structure and powers of the local bodies. He said that the PTI’s government rendered the local bodies ineffective practically when it withheld the development funds of the Tehsil councils on discriminatory grounds and spent the development budget through the MPAs.
“They violated the vision of their party’s founding chairman by crippling down the local governments,” he lamented, adding that two PTI’s government and the caretaker had violated the constitution of Pakistan by depriving the people of their fundamental rights of development through local governments. He appreciated the chairmen who struggled for their rights of the LG system and staged protests.
