HYDERABAD, April 18: The Sindh Taraqi Passand Party has demanded that President Gen Musharraf should hand over the reins of government to the Supreme Court for holding fresh elections.

At the party’s central committee meeting held here on Monday, leaders formed committees for different districts to carry out preparations for the anti-greater Thal canal and Kalabagh dam action committee’s protest meeting to be held in Sukkur on April 29.

Dr Qadir Magsi presided over the meeting.

It decided to commemorate the World Labour Day on May 1 in a befitting manner.

The central public meeting on May 1 would be held in Kotri Site area.

The meeting also formed various wings of the party.

The meeting expressed concern over the political situation obtaining in the country.

It said that due to inefficiency and apathy of the rulers, price hike, unemployment, poverty and hunger were on the increase.

It alleged that due to tussle for power, innocent people were being murdered on the basis of religion.

It held the rulers, specially the Sindh government, the governor and the MQM responsible for the April 11 bomb blast in Karachi.

It observed that excesses against subjugated nations had increased during the regime of General Musharraf and added that their language, culture and very existence were being destroyed.

It criticized the ongoing army operation in Balochistan.

It said that robbery on waters of the Indus River had not been stopped and attempts were being made to convert the Sindhi nation into a minority by opening the Khokhropar route.

It observed that old Sindhi villages were being demolished with a view to expelling the Sindhi people from urban cities.

Dr Qadir Magsi said that lives of people in urban Sindh have been made miserable by terrorists and in rural areas by bandits and police.

He said that time has come to launch a resistance movement against the rulers.