Rawalpindi, (Parliament Times) : Sheikh Abdul Waheed, President of Central Traders Association Liaquat Road Rawalpindi and Inter City Hotels Association said that there is no formal forum to solve the problems of traders at an impartial level.
The leadership that won the Rawalpindi Chamber elections secured 1700 votes out of 15000 members.While 89 percent members expressed no confidence in the leadership of the present Rawalpindi Chamber.The eleven percent success group was once again imposed on us for two years.Where is this justice?We appeal to the Ministry of Commerce to take notice of the Chamber’s irregularities.We demand NAB to conduct an audit of the amount taken from the members apart from the membership fee.
Sheikh Abdul Waheed, President of the Central Association of Tradesmen and Inter-City Hotels Association, while talking to the journalists, said that the Trade Unity Group was formed to get rid of the mafia group that has been occupying the chamber for thirty-five years.In the Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry elections, the former presidents’ brothers were the Election Commission.Out of 15000 members, the current leadership got 1700 votes.their success ratio was 11 percent, indicating that 89 percent of members expressed no confidence on them and did not cast a vote.He said that One member was selected from all Central Anjuman Tajran Associations of Rawalpindi for the Chamber elections.One part was given to the Pakhtun business community, and one part was given to the Small Chamber.We fought to protect the business community, while they fought only to protect each other and their organization.If our chambers represented business community on real basis, the government would have made it mandatory to consult them before formulating policies, but we do not have real leadership.
Shiekh Abdul Waheed said that the Rawalpindi Chamber should have come on the front foot in the strike that took place in the past few days, but the leadership of our Chamber was sitting in the AC rooms.We want to elect a real leadership who will develop the country and convey the problems of businessmen to the government.Sheikh Abdul Waheed said that our businesses have been severely affected. People’s purchasing power has ended.Due to business closures and unemployment, the city of Rawalpindi has become a victim of backwardness.The government must think that if the businessman earns, then they will also pay taxes regularly.He further said that people who are indifferent to ground realities should not be included while making policy.It is very important to take the stakeholders into confidence before formulating the policy.He further said that people who are indifferent to ground realities should not be included while making policy.It is very important to take the stakeholders into confidence before formulating the policy.So we requesting to the government that consultation with the stakeholders should be mandatory while making the policy.Include people who are sincere leaders of the business community.Such people should never be included,who showed that They supported the Tajir Dost scheme, and then the same people have appeared on the front row in the protests against the Tajir Dost scheme.Sheikh Abdul Waheed said that the competent authority of the chambers is the Ministry of Commerce, we appeal to them to oblige the existing body of the Rawalpindi Chamber to apply the laws without discrimination.Whoever is found guilty of violating the laws, Action should be taken against the law.Votes of members whose votes were canceled in the Chamber elections should be taken notice of.He demanded that NAB should take notice of the amount taken from the members apart from the membership fee should be audited and all the members should be treated equally.The president of the chamber should no longer be a puppet and chamber should be freed from his arbitrary and interference of any group leader.