HYDERABAD, April 24: The nazim of union council-2 of Qasimabad taluka Mehboob Abro claimed on Tuesday that a conspiracy was afoot to move a no-confidence motion against him as punishment for being ‘too vocal’ about problems of Sindhi areas of the district.

He said at a news conference at the press club that he would not bow to the vested interests and added that he had been raising voice in the district council during last 18 months about discrimination against Qasimabad.

Many fronts had been opened against him to make him non-functional. He criticised an official who had been appointed as secretary at the union council and said that some councillors had been asked to move a no-confidence motion against him, he said.

He alleged that the district nazim and Adviser to Chief Minister Ms Nuzhat Pathan were behind the plan to dislodge him. He said that the district government had received billion of rupees worth development package for the city but no development work had been undertaken in Qasimabad.

He said that people of Qasimabad were with him and warned that if conspiracies were not stopped, demonstrations and hunger strikes would be staged across the province.

The Sindh National Congress leader Punhal Sario, SNP leader Ashraf Noonari and Mohammad Din Chang were also present at the press conference.

Meanwhile, SNP activists led by Ashraf Noonari staged a march from Hyder Chowk to district council building where they staged a sit-in against the district government.

They symbolically placed a lock on the district council gate and raised slogans of ‘‘remove the district nazim, save Hyderabad’’ Mr Noonari said that the district government had completely failed to solve people’s problems and Sindhi areas had been completely neglected.