LAHORE: Pakistan Peoples Party Central Punjab Senior Vice President and Local Government Committee Convener Rana Farooq Saeed has said that the PPP rejects the Punjab Local Government Act 2025, we will become a party in challenging this act in court.
He expressed these views while addressing a meeting of the said committee held at the People’s Secretariat Model Town.
The meeting was attended by Shahzad Saeed Cheema, Bushra Manzoor Maneka, Haji Azizur Rehman Chan, Fatima Malhi, Rai Ahmed Hassan Jandika, Malik Umar Hayat, Rana Muhammad Mushtaq, Mian Noman Yousaf, Anwar Hussain. Malik Jamil Kallis, Naseem Sabir Chaudhry, Mudassar Shakir, Basharat Ali.
In the meeting, Information Secretary Shahzad Saeed Cheema proposed that an all-party conference be called and a joint declaration be issued regarding the local government elections.
Local Councilors Association Punjab member Anwar Hussain, while briefing the committee on the local government elections, said that the local The Government Act 2025 is divided into urban and rural areas. For the first time, the district council has been abolished in the new act. The elections to the union council will be held on a non-partisan basis.
The 9 elected members of the union council will elect the remaining four. Anwar Hussain said that under the new act, no political party will be able to issue tickets at the UC level and the chairmen of all the houses of the tehsil council will be its members.
Reported By: Staff Reporter I Lahore
