BADIN: Sindh Minister for Agriculture Ismail Rahu has said that the provincial government is focusing more on the agriculture sector and taking all possible measures to provide relief to the farming community.

Speaking to local reporters during his visit to different areas of Badin on Sunday, the minister said there would be no water shortage in the upcoming Kharif season if Sindh was provided water as per its indent.

He confidently stated that the province would produce a bumper wheat crop this year, and held out the assurance that wheat growers would get a fair price of their crop both from Sindh government and millers.

Mr Rahu said the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) government in Sindh was the only provincial government in the country which was ensuring relief to its people despite facing a financial crisis.

He ruled out any threat to the Sindh government, and said those who were daydreaming to topple it were just trying to save their own skin. Such people, he said, would face wrath of the masses for their misrule and misdeeds.

Mr Rahu also warned the ruling coalition at the Centre against any attempt to amend of do away with the 18th Constitutional Amen­dment. “Such ulterior motives are aimed at control provinces from Centre,” he said.

Criticising policies of the Pak­itan-Tehreek-i-Insaf-led government, the minister observed that inflation had gone all-time high and resulted in an unprecedented increase in the prices of essential commodities in the country. He noted that the poor masses were living a miserable life due to the situation, and held the PTI government responsible for it. “The federal government should better step down before it is ousted in a public revolt,” he said.

Mr Rahu said that recent statistics showed that the present government at the Centre was the most incompetent in the country’s history. While it could deliver nothing, it was creating more and more mess due to bad governance, he added.

He alleged that the PTI-led government was causing a rise in the prices of petroleum and other products to ensure financial benefits to those who had financed the party in the past.

He cautioned that the ruling coalition imposed on the masses was exposing the country to grave threats.

Published in Dawn, February 3rd, 2020