HYDERABAD, Nov 11: The Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz central committee at a meeting held here on Monday reiterated that the people of Sindh would not accept construction of water projects on the River Indus.

The committee decided to hold a meeting of the party council on Dec 6 in Sann to evolve a strategy for launching a consistent struggle for the rights of Sindh.

About the sugarcane crisis, the JSQM held both the sugar mill owners and the Sindh government responsible for the crisis and losses to growers.

It was of the opinion that the Sindh government had sold out the interests of growers and added that under a conspiracy, the rulers were trying to destroy the agriculture sector of the province. It observed that construction of dams on the Indus River was linked to the conspiracy.

The meeting said growers of Sindh were being pushed against the wall by reducing prices of crops and through supply of spurious and substandard pesticides which, it alleged, were being sold under the patronage of the government.

It demanded that the ongoing work on the Thal canal should be stopped forthwith.

JSQM chairman Bashir Qureshi presided over the meeting.