GUJRANWALA, March 12: Representatives of the district bar, trade bodies and different social welfare organisations took out a rally against the city district government for its failure to revamp the cleanliness system and dumped garbage into the district nazim’s office here on Monday.

In the evening police registered cases against 209 people, including protest leaders.

Few days back, former MPA S.A Hamid’s Gujranwala Bachao Tehrik, former bar president Pervaiz Ahmad Oathi’s Awami Huqooq Tehrik, DBA president Ilyas Rehan and People’s Lawyers Forum president Syed Aftab Zaidi had announced a protest rally against the CDG for poor cleanliness and sewerage system.

Activists of these organisations came to the office of district nazim Fiaz Ahmad Chattha in three ambulances while some activists brought garbage-laden donkey carts and dumped the refuse into the district nazim office to express their resentment. They also chanted slogans against the district nazim and officials of the district government.

Addressing the rally, leaders claimed that Hamid Nasir Chattha, the father of the district nazim, had promised during the local body election campaign that all the city’s broken roads would be reconstructed besides revamping of the cleanliness system. But all his promises were nothing short of hollow slogans. — Correspondent