KHAIRPUR, June 28: A large number of farmers took out two separate processions in the district to protest against shortage of water and rotation programme in Thari Mirwah and Sobhodero on Wednesday.

The procession in Thari Mirwah led by Mehar Veesar Union Council Nazim Abdul Khaliq Veesar and Naib Nazim Sabir Ali raised slogans against irrigation officials and alleged that the officials had created artificial shortage of water in Sada Rang Wah and Bilawal since for last 15 days under the rotation programme to provide water to influential landlords.

The protesters also staged a demonstration near Sada Rang Wah.

The irrigation officials had made it a routine to register fake cases while they were least concerned about the farmers’ problems, they complained.

Farmers in Sobhodero whose lands were irrigated by 12 minors fed by Faiz Nahar Wah staged a demonstration. With Jamal Khuhro and other farmers in their lead the protesting farmers marched for three kilometres from Bindi Motayo village till Faiz Nahar Wah.

They blamed rotation programme for dealing a deadly blow to their crops including cotton and sugarcane because they argued that under the rotation programme 12 minors including Girkhino, Teekno, Mad minor and Mehrab minor which watered their lands had been closed.

Demos: Hundreds of people from Agra, Madd, Bago Bhan, Mehro Wahan and Nau Goth Pathano villages staged a protest demonstration on Wednesday against Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco) for subjecting them to stretched hours of load-shedding.

The protesters burnt tyres on Madd-Jado Road near Madd bringing traffic to a halt.

They said that the Hesco officials had made their lives hellish by carrying out artificial load-shedding stretching to 12 hours in the scorching heat.

Another demonstration was held by the activists of Shehri Ittehad Committee in Thari Mirwah against Hesco after a transformer installed in their area stopped functioning.