MITHI, Jan 21: The members of opposition benches, District Council Tharparkar have expressed serious concern and resentment at the partisan role of the treasury benches for not bringing the motions of the opposition members on the agenda of the council’s sessions.

Protesting against what they called the partisan role of the convener and the members of the treasury bench, the opposition members boycotted the session on Friday and Saturday.

The protesting members repeatedly complained on the floor of the house alleging that those who were at the helm of affairs in the council had appointed officials of their choice on administrative posts in the education and police departments so that Thar could be turned into a police state and voters and employees of the opposition could be victimized.

Rahmatullah Rahmoon, Mohanlal, Abdul Rahim Khoso and other members complained to journalists, after boycotting the session the other day, that though the government was trying its utmost to root out corruption by taking strict action against the corrupt and inefficient officials, but contrary to it the big wigs of the district council had got posted scores of such officials in the education and police departments “who were corrupt and inefficient according to their service record”.

The aggrieved members alleged that the executive district officer (education), Tharparkar, had assigned the duty of assistant returning officers, to prepare the voter lists, who were the favourites of the district Nazim.

RESOLUTIONS PASSED: The district council, Tharparkar, passed a number of resolutions and urged the government to establish a full-fledged laboratory at Mithi for manufacturing anti-snake bite vaccine, provide a deep-freezer to Nagarparkar Hospital for storing blood, provide funds to the poor minority patients from the Baitulmaal, provide new machines for the Tharparkar water supply scheme and stop the extortion by the traffic police.