MIRPURKHAS May 6: Mamnoon Hussain, a senior leader of PML-N and former governor of Sindh, has accused the outgoing PPP government of making new records in corruption and plunder of national exchequer during its five-year rule.

Speaking at a public meeting organised by the PML-N and Peoples Muslim League in railway ground in Jhuddo town on Sunday night, he said that the PPP’s corruption during five years amounted to Rs5,000 to 7,000 billion. A former minister of religious affairs of the PPP government was still in jail on charges of corruption, he said.

He said that FIA had recovered millions of rupees from the bank account of a federal minister of PPP. The party had plundered different government departments, including Pakistan Steel Mills, PIA, Wapda, SSGC and railways and left them nearly destroyed, he said.

He said that before PPP’s rule, Pakistan Steel Mills had assets valued at Rs12 billion but unfortunately the mills was now facing a deficit of R90 billion.

Mr Hussain said that a record number of suicide incidents took place during last five years because of increasing poverty and joblessness.

He said the PML-N had made a pact with Peoples Muslim League in Sindh and urged people to launch anti-PPP campaign throughout the province.

Meanwhile, PML-F candidate for NA-226, Syed Qurban Ali Shah, said that masses had rejected the PPP because of its inefficiency and failure to implement its slogan of Roti, Kapra Aur Makan.

The party was once again using misleading slogans to try to fool masses into voting it to power for another five years, he said while speaking at a public meeting here on Monday.

He said that PPP candidates were facing people’s wrath in their constituencies because they had failed to serve them. Instead, they busied themselves with plundering national resources and gifted people with price hike, long hours of loadshedding, a railway system in a shambles and an acute shortage of water and gas, he said.

He said the President Asif Ali Zardari and his henchmen had robbed the country’s resources with both hands over the past five years and they were again trying to come to power.

He appealed to people to cast vote in favour of honest and patriotic candidates and said the PPP was martyred and buried with the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

Former PML-F councillor, Syed Jalees Ahmed Hashmi, said that Sindh would progress under the leadership of Pir Saheb Pagara. His party was striving for the rights of Sindhi people, he said.