SUKKUR, Dec 14: Hundreds of peasants took out a procession in Ghotki on Sunday and urged the government to establish peasant courts on the pattern of labour courts to provide speedy justice to haris.

The protesters, a large number of women among them, criticised non-implementation of the Sindh Tenancy Act-1950 and demanded that the government should enforce the act in its true spirit.

The protesters led by the leaders of Sindh Hari Porhiat Conference and Awami Party started their march from the press club and reached the main chowk where they held a demonstration.

The leaders accused the government of distributing land among its favourites and claimed that no genuine peasant woman had been granted land.

They criticised the government for its failure to implement the act and said that despite a lapse of half a century, the poor peasants were still awaiting its implementation.

They called for revolutionary changes in the agriculture policy and demanded tabling another Sindh tenancy act in the assembly to speed up its implementation.

They accused chieftains, feudal lords, bureaucracy and industrialists of encouraging tribal feuds and jirgas for their own vested interests at the cost of agricultural economy.

They said that the Pakistan Agriculture and Storage Corporation was not purchasing paddy from growers at the fixed rate of Rs700 per maund, compelling them to sell their yield at Rs500 to 600 per 40kg.

They said that they would hold a demonstration in Hyderabad on Dec 21 and another in front of Sindh Assembly on Dec 25.