Festivity runs high in Sindh

Published February 22, 2008

DADU, Feb 21: People from all walks of life together with the workers of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) kept bringing out processions in Sindh on Thursday to celebrate the party’s election victory.

A procession led by the newly-elected PPP MNAs and MPAs of the Jamshoro District was taken out in Sehwan.

MNA Nawab Abdul Ghani Talpur and MPAs Dr Sikandar Shoro and Dr Daya Ram Essrani led a convoy of thousands of PPP workers from Kotri to Sehwan.

The MNAs and MPAs laid floral wreaths at the grave of Qalandar Lal Shahbaz and offered Fateha.

The employees of Sindh Agriculture University arranged a procession in Tandojam which began from the Veterinary Faculty and after passing through the Hyderabad-Mirpurkhas Road terminated outside the Vice Chancellor’s block. A heavy contingent of law enforcement agencies was deployed where some hot words were reportedly exchanged between the leaders of employees and police.

In Sanghar, PPP workers continued celebrating the victory and staged a mock funeral of “bicycle”, the election symbol of PML-Q. They held processions and distributed sweets.

In Nawabshah, supporters and workers of the PPP workers unrelentingly celebrated the election victory. The activists said they had fulfilled their promise they made to Benazir Bhutto in Nawabshah on Dec 19, 2007.

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