APROPOS a news item, `Bilawal seeks people`s opinion on how to revive PPP` (April 16). Feedback from workers from several districts of Punjab suggests people want the leadership to make public the criteria for the formation of new committees at the district level.

For example, several district organisers had everything, including money but lacked the voter`s respect and trust.

In the absence of any accountability mechanism within the party to access performance of a district organiser in any election, those at the helm of affairs in any district cannot be questioned on what they did for the people.

In some instances people who never knew any party worker were made district presidents. Rather workers had to introduce their leaders to co-workers in some rarely held party meetings.

The pattern was repeated while awarding party tickets to little or unknown contestants.

This contributed to a weakening of political culture in the country. It certainly demoralised PPP workers.

While reviving the party, the Punjab organising committee may take into account the fact that money alone cannot win elections, but to contest elections huge money is needed.

During this reorganisation, if moneyed class again is to dominate the party hierarchy from district to the province, then what is this reorganisation for? Can this revival help middle classes/ party workers to have parliamentary representations throughrepresentatives from their own cadres? Can the chairman dare amend party`s manifesto that in any next general elections PPP will award 25pc of party tickets to middle class workers? This should be apart from a renewed pledge that the PPP will not dole outreserved seats tokith andkin of`born to lead`, and they are many.

What about minorities and women? Can the party borrow few good things, to say, from the MQM, if any? Can this reorganisation help people claim their constitutional rights? I hope the PPP chairman will pay heed to these suggestions which are certainly not so far-fetched.

Iftikhar Haider Islamabad