KARACHI, Dec 20: Parliamentary leader of People’s Party Parliamentarians in Sindh Assembly, Nisar Khuhro, said on Friday that the PPP MPAs who had formed the forward bloc and supported Ali Mohammad Mahar’s government were being issued show-cause notices and they would be “expelled from the party soon.”

Speaking at a press conference at his residence, he said the formation of provincial government was the PPP’s right but it was “deprived of it through rigging and blackmailing.”

“By postponing the Nov 28 session of Sindh Assembly, the federal government deprived the PPP and the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) of getting their speaker and deputy speaker elected,” he said. Later, by extending the time for filing of nomination papers for the election of the deputy speaker, they again rigged the polls, he alleged.

He contended that Chief Minister Mahar had refused the PPP ticket for contesting the provincial assembly election at the last moment, giving little time to the party to field an appropriate candidate against him.

“Otherwise, he couldn’t have even won his ancestral seat from Ghotki,” Khuhro claimed.

He criticized the federal government’s interference in Sindh affairs.

Nisar Khuhro called upon the chief minister to uphold democratic norms and expel the PPP and MMA turncoats from the government instead of rewarding them for their “betrayal.”

He criticized Speaker Syed Muzzafar Hussain Shah for acting leniently against the police, which entered the assembly premises, arrested Mohajir Qaumi Movement MPA Younus Khan and humiliated the provincial legislature.

He demanded that the Sindh government should make various sugar mills operational and revive the economy of the province.—PPI