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HYDERABAD, May 21: Hundreds of Sindh Agriculture University employees boycotted work and continued their protest for the 10th consecutive day here on Wednesday against the vice chancellor and the retired officers.
They held a protest demonstration and sit-in outside the vice chancellor’s block and raised slogans against the vice chancellor and the retired officers.
Speaking on the occasion, the leaders of the action committee, Syed Abdul Majeed Shah Rashidi, Hussain Bux Veesar, Karam Punno and others said that the workers would now struggle for only a one-point agenda: the removal of the vice chancellor and retired officers.
The chairman, Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz, Bashir Khan Qureshi, also arrived there and spoke to the employees.
He said the vice chancellor was anti-Sindh and he had destroyed this great institution in collaboration with the retired army officials.
Mr Qureshi said that his party would not tolerate the destruction of the educational institutions of Sindh.
He claimed that if the vice chancellor, Dr Bashir Ahmed Chandio, did not relinquish his post, hundreds of people would block the road and throw him out.
He appealed to the Sindh governor to relieve the vice chancellor and his collaborators.
Other JSQM leaders, Shafi Karnani, Sikandar Jamali, Dr Zulfiqar Panhwar and the central president of the JSSF, Suleman Veesar, were also present and extended their full support to the employees.
PPP MNA Syed Amir Ali Shah Jamote also met with the protesting employees and expressed solidarity with them.
Meanwhile, MQM MNA Prof Khalid Wahab and a member, MQM zonal committee, Shabbir Bachkani, have also demanded that the retired officers should be removed.
A statement issued by the MQM zonal office said that Prof Khalid Wahab had held out an assurance to the employees that he would talk to the Sindh governor for the resolution of employees’ problems.
LEADERS CRITICIZED: The Sindh Agriculture University Bachayo Mulazim Tehrik Committee Tandojam leaders have severely criticized the leaders of the Employees Action Committee of the university saying that they were “blackmailers and had destroyed the peaceful atmosphere of the university to achieve their own nefarious designs”.
Speaking at a press conference at the Hyderabad Press Club on Wednesday, Ghulam Rasool Vistro, Agha Mehmood Pathan, Mohammad Hajan Khushik, Sono Khan Almani and Mohammad Soomar Mangi said that the Employees Action Committee of the university was absolutely illegal and its office bearers, Abdul Majeed Shah, Hussain Bux Veesar and others were corrupt and blackmailers.
