LARKANA: Council calls for reinstating SSGC employees

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LARKANA, Dec 26: The district council on Tuesday through a resolution urged the Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGC) to reinstate sacked employees in the light of the Supreme Court’s verdict.

At the start of the session, Babu Serwar Siyal said that the Supreme Court had ordered the reinstatement of 471 SSGC workers but the management was reluctant to absorb them on one or the other excuse.

Acting convener Badar Abbasi presided over the session.

The members supported the move by raising hands and called for the restoration of services of the fired SSGC employees.

The disturbance marred the meeting when ADP and SNF members objecting over minutes of the last meeting said that it contained unparliamentarily language.

Mashoque Jatoi and Khair Mohammed Shaikh stood up over the issue who later joined by other opposition members and boycotted the session.

Tauqeer Fatima Bhutto pointed out to the lack of the quorum also.

KPP leader Babu Serwar Siyal negotiated with ADP and SNF members and arrived at an agreement of running the session smoothly.

Terming the move a welcome step, Mr Siyal confessed that almost whole year had passed without doing any constructive job.

He said that ADP and SNF members had requested for postponing the session.

The chair said it was a good omen that from now onward the members of the ADP, SNF and KPP would inject their potentials in constructive and positive moves for all of them represent people of their constituencies.

PROTEST: Sacked employees of the SSGC demanding to be reinstated in the light of Supreme Court’s verdict continued a token hunger strike outside the press club on sixteenth day on Tuesday.

The ADP nazims expressing solidarity with the protesting workers joined the hunger strikers camp.

They appealed the quarter concerned for implementing the court’s decision.

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