HYDERABAD, Sept 20: Sindh People’s Party Parliamentarians president Qaim Ali Shah has said that the prime minister’s visit to Hyderabad without announcing any specific relief for rain-affected people was a cruel joke.

Talking to party workers at the residence of MPA Ali Nawaz Shah here, he also criticised the Sindh chief minister for not declaring Hyderabad’s rural taluka as calamity-affected and for insulting the Awam Dost nazim of the rural taluka.

He said that the district administration had miserably failed to drain out rainwater from Latifabad and Qasimabad talukas.

He demanded that an inquiry should be held against the district government.

He accused the Sindh chief minister of discriminating against the rural taluka where crops worth hundreds of millions of rupees had been destroyed.

He said that when Rural Taluka Nazim Khawand

Bux Jahejo was presenting the problems of his taluka before the prime minister, he was snubbed by the Sindh chief minister.

He demanded that the rural taluka should be declared calamity-affected and farmers should be exempted from the payment of all agricultural taxes.

Qaim Ali Shah along with other party leaders distributed relief goods among rain-affected people of Latifabad and Qasimabad talukas.