KHAIRPUR, Dec 7: Activists of the People’s Party Parliamentarians took out a procession from Luqman to the press club here on Wednesday to protest against removal of district party president Sajid Bhambhan and general secretary Shafqat Shah.

The protesters were led by Mubin Phulpoto and Sher Mohammad Phulpoto, former district naib nazim of Khairpur.

The procession marched through various roads, including Khaki Shah Pull, Khairpur railway station road, mall road, civil centre chowk, court road, Chhatti chowk and the kutchehry road, and reached the press club.

The protesters alleged that the newly-appointed district president and general secretary were already charged of violating the party discipline.

Mubin Phulpoto said that a long march would also be taken out from the shrine of Sufi poet Sachal Sarmast to the tomb of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in Garhi Khuda Bux.

Later, a meeting of the PPP was held at the Jilani house here on Wednesday with district president Qamar Zaman Shah Jilani in the chair.

The meeting condemned the rally under Mr Phulpoto and termed it against the party discipline.

District president of the PPP Qamar Zaman Shah suspended the party membership of Mubin Phulpoto for leading the rally.

Syed Amjad Ali Shah Jilani, Syed Samiullah Shah Rashidi, Ghazala Siyal and some other leaders of the PPP attended the meeting.

THEFT: Transformers and coil plates were stolen in two separate incidents here on Tuesday night. Some unidentified thieves took away coil plates of transformers from the tube well no KE-2 in the jurisdiction of the Babarloi police station.