HYDERABAD, June 28: The People’s Party Parliamentarians leaders have rejected voter lists of Shahdadpur taluka, Sanghar district, as bogus and called upon the Election Commission to cancel the lists.

They warned that if the list was not cancelled, the PPP activists would stage a big rally on July 5 and then move the judiciary on the issue.

Accompanied by more than one dozen PPP leaders from Shahdadpur, former Sindh minister Abdul Salam Thaheem told a news conference at the press club here on Thursday that between 15,000 and 20,000 voters had been listed in more than one constituency with same names, fathers’ names, NIC numbers and even same serial numbers.

Mr Thaheem quoted many instances to substantiate his allegations and showed documentary proofs in this regard. He accused the Pakistan Muslim League (Functional) of getting registered thousands of bogus voters in the lists of 51 Dehs of Shahdadpur taluka alone. He said that there were only five houses in Nazar Mohammad Jamali village of Gul Mohammad Laghari Deh, but the number of its registered voters was 639.

Mr Thaheem said that he had never come across such a bogus voter list and rejected the claim of the commission that the lists were correct.

He said that a large number of display centres had been established only on papers and the lists meant to be displayed there were lying at the houses of the staff concerned.

Mr Thahim said that the leaders of the opposition parties and representatives of NGOs were visiting different places to find out the display centres and the lists but to no avail.