HYDERABAD, May 6: Elected representatives of the Hyderabad rural taluka have made a frontal attack on the district nazim for discriminating against the taluka in respect of development schemes and patronising the TMO who they alleged was a diehard MQM activist.
Speaking at a news conference at the Hyderabad press club on Saturday, Rural Taluka Nazim Khawand Bux Jahejo said that he had won elections from the platform of Awam Dost Panel but offered his full cooperation to MQM’s district nazim.
He said that the attitude of district nazim had been biased and discriminatory against Sindhis.
Taluka Naib Nazim Ashraf Talpur and ten other members of the taluka council, out of the total strength of 17, were present on the occasion.
Mr Jahejo said that the forests were located in the rural taluka but the district nazim refused to invite him to attend the forest committee meeting.
He said that development work was only carried out in Tandojam and parts of Husri and Tando Hyder where there was the vote bank of the MQM.
He said that if the government and the district nazim wanted to take over the control of rural taluka, they should do it in a democratic manner.
He said that the TMO, who was previously arrested in a case of embezzlement, was a diehard activist of the MQM.
The taluka nazim charged that the TMO had not attended on single meeting of the council out of six and the council had adopted a resolution for his removal but in vain.
Mr Jahejo said that he had talked to the secretary local government in this regard but the secretary expressed his helplessness on the ground that he could not remove the TMO as he was the man of local bodies minister Waseem Akhtar.
He said that the TMO always remained absent from his office and he was not signing any cheques including the cheques of information department.
He said that due to the defiant attitude of the TMO, the work of the council was suffering.
He said that he himself and the councillors were being issued threats of dire consequences on telephone and that their self-respect and even their lives were in danger.
He said that when the naib nazim of UC Tando Qaisar, joined the MQM, he was given Rs45 million for his development schemes.
The taluka nazim said that not a single meeting of the district advisory committee had been convened of which he was a member.
He said that a meeting of the taluka council was scheduled for today (Saturday) but it could not be held due to threats to members of the taluka council.
He said that there was a world of difference between what the MQM preached and what it practised.
He called upon the Sindh governor, the chief minister and MQM chief Altaf Hussain to take notice of alleged excesses being committed by the district nazim against the rural taluka.
He warned that if the TMO was not removed by Monday, then the taluka council would itself remove him.
QASIMABAD TALUKA: Qasimabad taluka’s UC-2 nazim Mehboob Abro said that the Hyderabad district council had allocated an amount of Rs55 million for the development of Rani Bagh but not a single penny has so far been spent on it.
He was speaking at a news conference at the Hyderabad press club here on Saturday.
He said that after June 15, the entire allocated amount would lapse. He demanded that the development work of Rani Bagh should be commenced without delay.
He said that those builders had not deposited development charges with the HDA.
