RAWALPINDI: After remaining vice president of the Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) for almost a year, Raja Jehandad Khan lost the position in just fifteen minutes on Monday.

In a session called for voting on no-confidence motion, as many as 11 members voted against Raja Jehandad Khan with a show of hands.

The board consisted of 12 elected members and 12 nominated members from military and civilian bureaucracy. The elected members can elect or de-seat a vice president.

In a shortest ever session with RCB President Station Commander Brigadier Hassan Raza the process of removing the sitting vice president was completed in just 15 minutes.

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However, he said the election for the new vice president will take place within 60 days after the notification of his (Raja Jehandad Khan) ouster.

`From now, the seat will be vacated and the election process will likely start after a week or two,` he said.

After this, Raja Jahandad Khan in his brief address assured the members of his cooperation in the execution of public welfare projects.

Within a year after the election of vice president of the cantonment board, the elected members of Rawalpindi Cantonment Board developed differences over development and appointment of officials in building control departments.

However, the appointment of some officials in enforcement cell turned out to be a tipping point and all the 11 members having support of MNA Malik Abrar were against the vice president`s decision andasked him to withdraw it but the vice president refused.

Provincial leadership of the PML-N did not come to the rescue of the former vice president and he had to leave.

Talking to Dawn, former vice president Raja Jahandad Khan accused his own party`s local MNA Malik Abrar Ahmed of hatching a conspiracy against him.

He alleged that MNA Malil< Abrar and his brother Malik Iftikhar were running illegal housing society and commercial plazas.

`When I brought his corruption to the surface he turned against me and started inciting members against me and managed to gather all of them on his side.

`As vice president, I managed to obtain development funds from federal government,` he said.

`I will never surrender and will expose all the corruption of the MNA after Eidul Fitr. I will remain member of the cantonment board and will work for the betterment of the residents of my constituency, he said.

On the other hand, MNA Malik Abrar was of the view that the elected mem-bers were working on their own will and they would not work on the dictation of others.

`The ouster of vice president is made as per the democratic norms and it showed democracy getting stronger in the civic bodies,` he said.

He refused to comment on the allegations of Raja Jahandad Khan and said it was time to work for the betterment and welfare of the residents of the cantonment instead of being involved in blame games.

After the no-confidence motion session, former vice president and elected member of RCB Hafiz Hussain Ahmed told Dawn that the party would start the process to find new vice president.

At present names of Zafar Iqbal and Hafiz Hussain Ahmed are in circulation for new vice president.

But Hafiz Hussain Ahmed said that the decision would be made by the party leadership.

`MNA Malik Abrar and Senator Chaudhry Tanveer will hold the meeting to select the new vice president soon,` he said.