By Faisal Fareed, TwoCircles.net,
Lucknow: The Peace Party of India (PPI) received another jolt with one of its expelled leader Haji Yameen Choudhary forming Peace Manch on Wednesday. Accusing Dr Ayub of PPI for turning money minded, Choudhary claimed that whole western UP unit of PPI has joined Peace Manch.
The Peace Manch also joined Ekta Manch headed by Maulana Salman Nadwi on Wednesday. This is the second time rival leaders in PPI have formed their own outfit. Earlier, one such leader Abdul Abdul Rehman Ansari had formed Rashtriya Peace Party after breaking away from PPI. However, his outfit had failed to make any significant impact or inroads among the masses.
Yameen Choudhary while announcing his own outfit claimed that Dr Ayub’s character has deviated from the principles for which PPI was formed on 10 February 2008. “I had toiled hard for the progress of party and had set up the organizational structure in whole western UP.
However, when it came to ticket distribution, Dr Ayub over-ruled all the names sent by the local units and gave tickets to new entrants,” he said. Choudhary also claimed that some leaders who are confined to
laptops and briefcase have hijacked the PPI.
“Candidates were selected inside closed door meeting while its grassroots worker has been denied the fruits of their labour,” he said.
He stated that after seeing the situation, he had sent a SMS to Dr Ayub reading ‘It seems you do not want to listen to truth and I cannot speak lies. “There was no reply and Dr Ayub advised me to adjust with the present system of the party,” he claimed.
Choudhary also stated that his conscience did not allow when the wife of a local worker in Pukazi, Muzaffarnagar tried to set her ablaze after ticket of her husband was changed at eleventh meeting by the PPI leadership. “I think it is enough for me and I had decided to party ways. Whole western UP unit of Peace Party is with me and now I have formed Peace Manch,” he said.
The newly formed Peace Manch is headed by Yameen Choudhary while former IG, Police, I P Singh has been named National Vice-President.
Most of the office bearers are from Rampur, Muzaffarnagar, Bijnaur, Shahjahanpur, Moradabad, Ghaziabad, Bareilly, Bulandshahr and Meerut indicating that the Peace Manch is confined to western UP.