HYDERABAD, Aug 5: The office-bearers of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the nazims of Awam Dost Panel (ADP) on Friday expressed grave concern over the house census’s failure to cover hundreds of villages which would in effect deprive thousands of genuine voters of their right to vote in the next general elections.

A meeting of local PPP office-bearers and ADP nazims presided over by MNA Syed Ameer Ali Shah Jamote discussed the house census and expressed grave concern over the fact that Hyderabad rural and Qasimabad talukas had not been counted during the census.

The meeting claimed that the villages of interior talukas had been deliberately ignored to convert a majority into a minority.

The house census was conducted according to 1998 maps whereas a large number of new settlements and thousands of new houses had been constructed since then but they had been left out of the census, the meeting said.

They accused the coalition partners of Sindh government of deliberately trying to change the demography in order to distort ground realities.

The meeting appealed to people to get their houses and villages counted during the house census and the names of voters registered in voters lists.—Bureau