HYDERABAD, Aug 11: Former deputy speaker of the Sindh Assembly, Jalal Mehmood Shah, has said that it has become necessary for nationalist parties to form a new party to struggle for the rights of Sindhis in assemblies.

He was speaking at a reception hosted by Raja Raheel Iqbal in Qasimabad on Thursday night.

He said that the People’s Party Parliamentarians and the Pakistan Muslim League were federal parties and Sindh had never remained on the agenda of the two parties.

He said that exigencies of time demanded that a new political party should be founded which should give a top priority to national rights.

He said that after the disintegration of the USSR, fundamentals of political ideology had changed.

He said that changes at the international level had necessitated radical changes in our own political thinking.

He said that the Sindh Democratic Alliance was formed with a sincerity of purpose but unfortunately the cult of personality dominated the party programme. As a result, the alliance died a natural death.

“We cannot afford to repeat the mistake” Shah said. He said that the time was ripe to form a new political parliamentary party but any haste in this regard would prove counter-productive.

He said that this was the reason that he had launched a mass contact movement to discuss the important issue with leaders of public opinion, nationalist leaders and people from all walks of life.

Sindh National Congress leader Dr Dodo Mehri said that while rural Sindh was in the grip of hunger and poverty, the people of urban areas were suffering from sense of insecurity.

Supporting Jalal Mehmood Shah, he said that politics of votes was the dire need of Sindh.

Abdullah Memon said that the nationalist parties had failed because they had nothing to do with common man.