THATTA, April 23: Major changes were announced in the People's Party Parliamentarians' district organisation by the party's provincial president Nisar Ahmed Khuhro here on Thursday.

According to the announcement, Syed Masood Mustafa Shah, grandson of renowned academician, the late Ghulam Mustafa Shah, has replaced Dr Abdul Wahid Soomro as the district president.

Other new office-bearers are Abdul Jaleel Memon, general secretary; Iqbal Shah, senior vice-president; and former MPA Ghulam Qadir Palijo, vice-president. The need to reorganize the district chapter of the party was felt by its leadership after its popularity graph showed a declining trend in the last general and local bodies elections.

Thatta district was named as the "PPP fort" by its founder, the late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, after he grabbed a MNA's seat from there in 1970. Since then, the party contestants used to grab all the assembly seats from this district.

However, the PPP seems to have lost its support in the area which is evident from its defeat in the last elections in which the Shirazi group has emerged victorious.