MNA angry over non-release of uplift funds

ISLAMABAD: MNA Shahzada Mohiuddin has said he has sent a letter to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani expressing concerns over the government's failure to release Chitral's development funds sanctioned under the Khushhal Pakistan Programme (KPP) by the previous government.
Talking to Chitral Update correspondent on phone from Peshawar on Friday evening, he said labourers who worked in different uplift projects in Chitral were cursing the rulers after they failed to get their wages as the funds remained frozen since the PPP came to power over six months back. He said despite repeated efforts he was unable to meet the prime minister and raise the issue with him.
In reply to a question, he said he had decided to join the PPP but was unable to announce formal joining of the party as under the defection class of the constitution he was not empower to do so.
However, he said, during a meeting the prime minister had informed them that from now onward we (MNAs in the forward bloc) would be consider as members of the ruling coalition and in the next elections they would be given PPP tickets if they wanted to run the lections on the PPP platform.
To another question, he said the government had not promised any ministerial slot for him for joining the PPP. However, he said, the coalition government would offer a few ministerial posts to the MNAs in the forward bloc and they would be distributed province wise. He said among the three or four MNAs joing or supporting the PPP from the NWFP, he was the senior most parliamentarian and as such was hopeful to get a ministry.