HYDERABAD, Aug 17: The senior vice president, Sindh Democratic Alliance, Mir Has-san Khoso, has said that his party was a part of the National Alliance under whose symbol it would contest the general elections.

He was speaking at a news conference in Nai Baran village near Kotri on Saturday.

He said that the SDA was holding dialogues with different parties, including the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, PML-Q and PML-F, for electoral understanding and cooperation. He claimed that there was a development in their dialogue with the MQM.

He said that the SDA ministers would resign “if there was a government policy for governors and ministers to tender resignations before filing nomination papers”.

He said that there was no provision in the Constitution for ministers and governors to resign in case they were contesting elections.

To a question that the federal law minister had clarified that as per government policy, the ministers and governors would have to resign if they wanted to contest the polls, he said: “There is a difference between the Election Commission and the government and the SDA ministers will definitely follow the government policy.”

He predicted that there would be a coalition government in Sindh.

He claimed that the SDA had studied the major issues of Sindh— from law and order to joblessness and water shortage— and had completed its homework so that in case it reached the corridors of power, it must have information about those issues.

Other SDA leaders present on the occasion included its vice president, Raheela Tiwana, Meer Mohammad Khokhar and Wasif Qavi.

They also spoke at a gathering in the village, which was organized by Umer Atta Qureshi, the son of former deputy director, anti corruption, Atta Moha-mmad Qureshi.