LAHORE Senior Adviser to CM Punjab Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khan Khosa has said the PML-N will support the division of the Punjab on administrative grounds instead of on linguistic and prejudicial bases. While replying to a question posed during a press conference held here on Thursday at the Chief Ministers Secretariat, Khosa advised senior PML-N leader Makhdoom Javed Hashmi to present his viewpoint about the Saraiki province in the Party meetings instead of going to the media and masses. To another question, he said Saraiki was a language spoken in parts of South Punjab, Sindh and NWFP, and other ethnic groups like Syed, Baloch, Gujjar, etc were also living in the Southern Punjab. While criticising former Information Minister Muhammad Ali Durrani, the Senior Minister opined that the former was raising slogans for the creation of a separate province in Bahawalpur after his party (PML-Q) was routed in the elections and Pervez Musharraf had left the country. PML-N Quaid Muha-mmad Nawaz Sharif has already said that new provinces could be created on the demand of the people, but a constitutional way needs to be followed in this regard, he mentioned, adding that the PML-N leadership awarded tickets for by-elections to suitable candidates in consultation with other party members. Khosa explicitly stated that he did not support creation of a province on linguistic grounds, and if there was a need to set up more administrative units, the constitutional method should be followed, which included approval from assembly by two-thirds majority or referendum. About the efforts of the provincial government for developing the Southern Punjab, Khosa said development schemes worth Rs 135 billion were being completed in the Southern Punjab and these were in addition to annual development programme and projects being executed in collaboration with the federal government. He said some of these schemes would be completed this year and others by next year. He said medical colleges were being constructed in Dera Ghazi Khan, Sahiwal and Bahawalpur, and each medical college would cost between Rs 1.75 billion and Rs 2.5 billion respectively. He said some elements were trying to gain political mileage by raising the issue that only Rs five billion had been allocated for development projects in Southern Punjab, adding that these elements, which could never get more than a few hundred votes, were also raising the issue of Saraiki Province. He said medical colleges were also being set up in Sialkot and Gujranwalla. He said if the government of PML-N was given a chance to complete its term, development projects initiated in Khushab and Mianwali would also be completed which would help alleviate poverty. While replying to another question, Khosa said the provincial government had adequate funds for wheat procurement and storage arrangements had been completed. He also said the government had given rights to the tenants of Okara.