HYDERABAD, Aug 20 Senior People's Party leaders of Thatta district have accused district PPP president Arbab Wazir Memon and his team of destabilising the party in the nine talukas of the district under a planned conspiracy.

Speaking at a news conference at the press club here on Thursday, former Thatta taluka president Abdul Khaliq Soomro, Usman Baloch of Kharochhan, Mohammad Ayoub of Keti Bandar and Mohammad Moosa Leghari of Sujawal demanded his immediate removal.

The leaders said they had served the party as office-bearers and workers with devotion during the last 20 years, though they were victimised and harassed by the previous governments.

They expressed disappointment over selection of Arbab Wazir Memon as district president who they claimed had sidelined the committed and devoted party workers.

Memon had handed over the party in the district to the MQM, Q-League and his personal servants, they alleged. They accused Memon of taking money from contractors and for fresh appointments and transfers of civil servants, they said.

Extortion and encroachments on plots by him had become the order of the day, they alleged.

They said Memon had adopted the policy of divide and rule and created groupings within the party.

The senior leaders appealed to the president, Sindh chief minister and other senior party leaders to suspend the district president and hold an inquiry against him.

They demanded that a five member committee should be appointed to run affairs of the district.

They vowed to foil all conspiracies against the party.

Earlier, PPP activists from Thatta staged a protest demonstration outside the press club against the Thatta district PPP president. Carrying party flags, they were raising slogans against him and demanded his removal.