PESHAWAR: Scores of Awami National Party workers led by the party`s federal council member Abrar Khalil on Friday resigned from the party membership and announced that they would soon join any other political party.

Speaking at a press conference at Peshawar Press Club, Mr Khalil claimed that he enjoyed the support of 45 nazims and councillors in PK-5 Peshawar (Palosai area) and all of them would take a decision unanimously.

Sharing details regarding differences with ANP leadership, he said that he and his supporters had strengthened the party in the provincial assembly constituency (PK-5), but the provincial president Haider Khan Hoti dissolved the organisational units which forced them to part ways with it.

`An organising committee extensively worked for eight months, but some influential people started accommodating their blue eyed persons in the organisational units in violation of the party constitution which infuriated the senior workers,` he claimed.

Mr Khalil alleged that central finance secretary Arbab Tahir brought people on parachute and managed to accommodate them in different units which angered the workers.

He said that poor people had no place in ANP and there was clear difference in words and deeds of the party leadership. He said at least 45 nazims and councillors in PK-5 had resigned from ANP.