Three vie for PML-N ticket

DG Khan district council chairman slot

DERA GHAZI KHAN: Though the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has still not nominated its contestant for the Dera Ghazi Khan District Council chairmanship, yet the Leghari group and the Khosa group have fielded their candidates for the slot.

The Leghari group has fielded Sardar Muhammad Ahmad Khan Leghari while the Khosa group has fielded Sardar Abdul Qadir Khosa. Both the groups have started claims and counterclaims for having maximum support of the union council chairmen. There is also a third candidate Sardar Abdul Qadir Khan Khosa, who is the son of MNA Sardar Muhammad Amjad Farooq Khan Khosa. The three candidates are campaigning aggressively to win support of the UC chairmen and to show the strength to the chief minister to get his nod.

Sardar Amjad Farooq Khosa was cornered and ignored when PML-N senior leader Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khan Khosa was in power.

Though both are cousins but the political differences kept them away from each other. Amjad Farooq Khan Khosa, who was elected as an independent MPA from PP-244 in the 2008 general elections had cast his vote in favour of Shahbaz Sharif for the slot of the provincial chief minister after the interim period of Sardar Dost Muhammad Khan Khosa. Amjad Farooq is in goods books of the chief minister.

As far as the Legharis are concerned, they have lost the support of MNA Hafiz Abdul Kareem and MPA Syed Abdul Aleem Shah and the two parliamentarians are supporting Sardar Abdul Qadir Khosa for the district council chairmanship.

Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs Chairman Sardar Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari and MPA Sardar Muhammad Kamal Khan Leghari have nominated Sardar Muhammad Ahmad Khan Leghari for the slot. The Legharis are dominant in Kot Chutta tehsil while Sardar Amjad Khosa claims to have the maximum support in Taunsa Sharif tehsil.

The political pundits are of the view that the PML-N may give a ticket to Shah Sadr Din Union Council Chairman Sardar Abdul Qadir Khan Khosa, son of MNA Sardar Muhammad Amjad Farooq Khan Khosa as he has remained with the party through thick and thin. Keeping in view his deep and years’ long affiliation, there are bright chances that he may be facilitated and preferred to powerful the Legharis, they add.