PESHAWAR: The annoyed PML-N activists on Wednesday announced they would stage a sit-in outside parliament on Nov 20 as partofthe`Party Bachao`(save the party) movement if the central leadership didn`t address their grievances.

They said they`d formally sent a charter of demands to the leadership for action.

Though in the day, PML-N provincial president Pir Sabir Shah declared annoyed workers a valuable asset for the party and said he would try to contact the centralleadership for resolution of their issues,the disgruntled groupkept continued mobilising likeminded activists for joining the march on Islamabad.

PML-N provincial vice presidents Waqif Khan and Rashid Mehmood and Peshawar district president Abdul Sattar Khalil told Dawn that annoyed party activists from across the province were ready to go to Islamabad on November 20 to record their grievances with the central leadership.

They said they demanded jobs for workers in the federal government departments like Nadra, Sui Gas, Wapda, Pakistan R ailways and FIA.

The disgruntled leaders said the PML-N had secured 8,58,000 votes in the province in the last general elections and if the workers` demands were not met, the people won`t vote for the party again.

They also demanded share for workers in the funds of senators, MPAs and MNAs, especially thoseelected on reserved seats.

The annoyed activists rejected the central leadership`s decision to empower some `influential` people to award tickets in different elections and said such powers should be given to the respective district organisations.

They said Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, Engineer Amir Muqam and Governor Sardar Mahtab Ahmad Khan were least bothered about the provincial activists` problems as they were not from among them.

The disgruntled leaders praised provincial president of the party Pir Sabir Shah for trying to redress their grievances but insisted he was helpless.

Also among the charter of demands were assurance of the federal government about the development of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor in line with original plan to cover the western route and removal of the grievances of Pakhtuns.Also in the day, the activists of Muslim Students Federation, the PML-N student wing, demanded that the party`s central leadership address issues of students in the province on priority basis to remove sense of deprivation among them.

The demand was made by MSF provincial leader Muslim Khan during a a news conference at the Peshawar Press Club.

Muslim Khan said a movement had been launched to strengthen the groupin the province.

He said a 10-member committee had been formed under his chairmanship to re-organise the PML-N student wing in the province.

The MSF leader said such committees would be constituted at district levels too.

The MSF leader said the committee led by him would hold meetings with the federal and provincial leaders of the party to apprise them ofstudentissuesin the provincefor corrective measures.