HYDERABAD, April 30: Sindh People’s Party Parliamentarians president Qaim Ali Shah has alleged that opponents of the PPP have planned to rig the by-elections for Hyderabad NA-219 seat. He accused the chief election commissioner and the district government of ignoring complaints of the PPP candidate and leaders about the election malpractices.
The government was trying to win the by-elections by hook or by crook, said the PPP leader while talking to reporters in Qasimabad after presiding over a meeting of the divisional office-bearers of the party of the defunct Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas divisions.
MPA Qaim Ali Shah said that according to reports of his party leaders, the opposition candidate belonged to the ruling group and the election staffs were under the district nazim.
He claimed that NA-219 was a stronghold of the PPP and demanded that the voters should be allowed to exercise their right of franchise in a free manner.
He, however, said that since the PPP was the exponent of democracy, it would not run away from the elections.
MPAs Syed Ali Nawaz Shah Rizvi and Zahid Bhurgari, and party leaders Sattar Bachani, Aftab Khanzada, Pervez Ansari and others were also present on the occasion.
SPLA PROTEST: On the call of the Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association, college teachers boycotted classes on Saturday and held protest meetings against their victimisation.
A press release of the SPLA claimed that the teachers had not attended classes in all the 232 colleges of Sindh. It said college teachers were subjected to violence and terrorism, and lawlessness had become the order of the day in educational institutions of the province.
It alleged that the government had accepted some demands but was delaying a notification to fulfil its commitment. It had not reinstated 27 teaches of the government girls college Qasimabad and the authorities had failed to arrest the murderers of the commerce college Karachi student, it added.
Resolutions passed at the protest meetings demanded the reinstatement of 27 teachers, end of lawlessness in the educational institutions, arrest of the murderers of students and the removal of home minister.
