LARKANA, Sept 14: A councillor couple of union council-9, Dr Tanvir Gaad and Dr Sakina Gaad, here on Saturday resigned from counsillorship in protest over rejection of nomination papers of the PPP leaders, Benazir Bhutto and Nisar Khuhro.

Talking to this scribe, they said that barring Benazir Bhutto from contesting elections would cast adverse effects on political culture of the country.

They said that on the one hand democrats were being stopped from contesting elections and on the other the government was claiming to be the champion of democracy.

They urged the people to raise voice against the double standard and stand by Benazir Bhutto.

They, in their resignation dispatched to the chief election commissioner and other related officials, said that it was better to remain out of the orbit of the devolution of power plan than to remain its part when its architects (the rulers) were out to destroy it.

Meanwhile, the Larkana PPP, at its meeting on here Saturday, discussed threadbare the strategy of participation in the polls.

The unit presidents and general secretaries of the PPP from all over the district with members of the working committee participated in the meeting.

Speaking at the meeting, Mohammed Anwar Bhutto, general secretary, PPP, Larkana district, Asghar Shaikh and others urged the party office-bearers to arrange corner meetings for the candidates in their areas to muster support for them.

The PPP, ladies wing, also held a meeting in Kennedy Market.

Speaking at the meeting, Dr Ashraf Abbasi, Rukayya Soomro and Tauqeer Fatima Bhutto urged the participants to motivate women to fully participate in the elections.

ACCIDENT: Two men, Mohammed Ali Shah and Rustam Ali Shaikh, died in a road accident near Kambar on Saturday.