LARKANA, April 17: The members of Awam Dost Panel (ADP) boycotted the proceedings of the district council for the second day running on Tuesday over what they called allegations by a ruling party member that People’s Party Parliamentarians had at long last accepted Musharraf in uniform.

The remarks by Khushhal Pakistan Panel’s (KPP) Babu Serwar Siyal on Monday that at last the PPP had accepted President Musharraf in uniform and struck a deal drew a vociferous protest from the ADP members who then boycotted the proceedings.

Mr Siyal and his group and ADP’s Dr Shabana Abro, Apa Naseeba Channa, Barkat Shaikh and Abdul Qadir Sangi traded charges. The ADP members accused KPP supporters of wasting the council’s time by indulging into petty issues while the KPP members criticised ADP for what they called their non-serious attitude.

After boycotting the session on Tuesday the ADP members held a separate session with Abdul Qadir Sangi in the chair while the council continued its session with convener Syed Ali Raza Shah in the chair.

An ADP member pointed out to lack of quorum before walking out of the session but the session continued and adopted certain resolutions. The council passed a supplementary budget of Rs0.5 million for running the business of district council’s secretariat.

The ADP members in their meeting flayed Gen Musharraf’s action against the Chief Justice of Pakistan and warned they would launch a campaign to force the district nazim to resign as he had confessed in Monday’s session to failure in providing health facilities to people.

In the council’s session Muhammed Hassan Kalhoro pointed out to the unavailability of dog bite, snakebite and hepatitis vaccines in the hospitals throughout the district.

Iqbal Soomro (JUI) and Badar Abbasi supported the move and said that the poor were forced to purchase vaccines from private stores while the rich managed to get them from hospitals. They slammed the discrimination and called for authorising nazims to issue these vaccines.

Akhtar Abbasi, Apa Khursheed Talat Khatyan, Muhammed Yusif Agham and Rehmatullah Bhutto drew the council’s attention towards closed schools, unannounced load-shedding and problem of old wiring in their union councils. A member complained that personnel of Rangers had occupied a portion of a school on the Naudero Road.

The council agreed to form a committee to undertake a survey of closed schools in the district.