Friday, July 10, 2009

Empire Strikes Back - Clumsily

Looks like the first salvo of the residents has hit the bull's eye. At least, it is proving itself life-threarening. It seems to have caused a real panic in Khalid Sultan's camp.

Khalid Sultan has called a special meeting of the Managing Committee. It is going to be held on Saturday (tomorrow).

Some property dealers and agents, who make their living from crumbs dropped off Khalid Sultan's lavish table, were today calling around other property dealers to come on board against what they think are unruly elements - the residents who have asked Khalid Sultan to open certain documents as the Bye-Laws of the society required.

A property dealer, Mian Anwarul Haq, who is also a government employee but makes money on the side when he gets a call from Muhammad Hussain in the Society Office giving him an inside scoop about some juicy plot, has written a letter saying that "some mischievious persons" are trying to disturb managing Committee. Today he approached some residents and asked them to sign his letter in support of Khalid Sultan. He was snubbed and brushed off by most of the persons he approached.

Farooq Gondal, who was given by Khalid Sultan the lease of the Society grave yard for five years alongwith four shops in Sutlej Market, sent some guys in a white car last night and then this morning to Hajji Sana Ullah's house in Indus Block of the Colony. They wanted to know why he had written a letter to the President of the society against Farooq Gondal's wrong-doings.

Hajji Sana Ullah reportedly told them that he had not written a letter about their wrong doing but he had written the letter to ask Kalid Sultan and Managing Committee that why they were not following the Bye-Laws. They had their own stories, of the corruption of Society employees and Members of Managing committee, to tell. But hajji Sana Ullah was not interested.

The rsidents of the Society were not idle either.

There was another letter, from residents, making rounds of the Colony today. You can call it a second salvo. This letter has been signed by scores of people. I have a copy in my possession and it is being reproduced here:

The President and the Members of the Managing Committee,

The Provincial Government Employees Cooperative Housing Society Ltd., Gujranwala.

C.c. Registrar Punjab Cooperative Societies, The Mall, Lahore.

C.c. Deputy Registrar Cooperative Societies, Opp. Central Jail, Gujranwala.

Dated: July 9, 2009

Subject: Massive and Blatant Violations of Bye-Laws of PGECHS (D. C. Colony)

Respected Sir/Sirs,

The undersigned members of the PGECH Society (D. C. Colony) Gujranwala, hereby, inform you that massive and blatant violations of the Bye-Laws of the said society have been/ are being committed by the President and the Members of the Managing Committee. The Managing Committee has ceased to exist as a legal entity as couple of members no more qualify to be the members of the Managing Committee under one pretext or the other as per Bye-Laws of the said society.

a) Major (R) Irshad Ahmad Chaudhry, Mr. Fazeel Asghar, Mr. Inayatullah Siyal, and Mr. Zia Mahmood and some other persons were/ are not legal members of the said society at the time when they are/ were participating in the decision making by the Managing Committee, the decisions taken in said meetings are to be considered illegal and thus null and void;

b) Some of the Members of the Managing Committee have repeatedly failed to show up for three or more consecutive meetings of the same but they have not been taken off the membership of Managing Committee or replaced by legal members of the society as required by Article 32 (1) and (9);

c) The Secretary of the Society cannot/ “will not exercise his powers as elected Secretary/ Member of the Management Committee if he gets salary” as per Articles 32 (5) read along with Article 39 (2) of the Society Bye-Laws but in direct contravention of the above mentioned Articles of the Bye-Laws ex-secretary was signing checks of huge amounts even though he was a paid employee and so not authorized to do so.

d) According to the Article 35 read along with Article 34 (9) “[I]n their conduct of affairs of society the members of the managing committee shall exercise the prudence and diligence of ordinary men of business and shall be personally responsible for any loss sustained through their gross negligence, carelessness, inefficiency and irresponsibility or through any breach of law, rule or Bye-Law”. This particular Article is invoked since hundreds of millions of Rupees have been misappropriated under your watch and the managing Committee was supposed to “keep an eye over any kind of mis-appropriation” but failed to do so and was to “take criminal action or start civil proceeding” but never did so, hence, you are personally “responsible to make up such losses”;

e) Referring to our letter dated June 29, 2009 received by society office on July 4, 2009 with Diary No. 544/09 we are still waiting for the “registers, books, documents” to be “open to inspection of member, interested in affairs of society” as reads Article 41 of the Bye-Laws of society.

Yours truly,


Residents are making sure this letter is in front of members of the Managing Committee when they take seats around the meeting table tomorrow.

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