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HYDERABAD, July 2: The Pattan Development Organisation, a non-governmental organisation, staged a street theatre outside the press club on Monday, which was aimed at creating awareness among people about getting registered as voters.
The NGO’s Ms Mona Shah, Ms Kulsoom Memon, Zaibunnisa Mallah and Sajjad Kandhar said that the organisation had established eight display centres in three talukas of the city to assist people in getting their names registered.
They said that the instant street theatre was part of their mobilisation campaign. Hundreds of voters had visited their display centres to seek relevant information about registration of names as voters, they said.
VOTERS’ LISTS: The secretary general of the Muttahida Labour Federation, Qamoos Gul Khattak, on Monday condemned what he said deletion of the names of a large number of workers from the voters’ lists of union council No.1, Manzoorabad, Jamshoro.
He said that out of 10,000 miners of Lakhra Coal Field, only 3,500 male and female voters were registered while the draft electoral rolls showed the names of only 375 workers. Even the old list showed more than 800 workers registered, he said.
Mr Khattak, who is also a central leader of Awami National Party, alleged that influential people had manoeuvred to get the names of people deleted from draft electoral lists, who were not likely to vote for them.
He termed the draft electoral lists as pre-election rigging and demanded that the chief election commissioner should order inclusion of all the genuine voters in the final lists.
