Mardan District Council: Row over non-allotment of seats to JUI-F members ends

MARDAN: A compromise was reached between the ruling alliance and the opposition to settle the dispute pertaining to the non-allotment of seats in the district council to the members of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F).

A jirga solved the issue between the ruling parties and opposition in the district council. It asked the ruling parties to allot seats on the opposition benches to JUI-F members who had left the ruling alliance in the council.

Deputy Commissioner Imran Hamid Sheikh, District Police Officer (DPO) Mian Saeed Ahmad, JUI-F district head Maulana Mohammad Qasim, Abdul Subhan Khan, Zar Bacha, Khan Akbar, SP Operation Gul Nawaz Khan and others organised the jirga.

The jirga members had started negotiations with the ruling and opposition party leaders. It succeeded in convincing both the groups to cancel their protest and boycott of the council’s session.

The jirga members succeeded in reaching a compromise between the ruling and opposition party at a meeting at the Pakhtunkhwa House (Circuit House).

It was started in the compromise declaration that both the ruling and opposition parties in the district council would run the proceedings of the council in peaceful environment. It said both the sides would solve their problems through democratic way in accordance with the Local Government Act 2013.

According to the deceleration, they would not follow undemocratic ways for the solution of their problems and would respect one another.

It may be noted that the district council witnessed a rumpus over the non-allotment of seats to the JUI-F councillors and not allowing JUI-F parliamentary leader Maulana Amanat Shah to talk on a point of order in the council’s session on February 21.