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HYDERABAD, Oct 11: Syed Mohsin Shah Bukhari, the People’s Party Parliamentarians candidate for PS-53 Tando Mohammad Khan, has accused the workers of the Sindh Democratic Alliance of violence and rigging in Thursday’s general election.
Speaking at a press conference at the Tando Mohammad Khan Press Club on Friday, Mr Bukhari said that his polling agents and workers at the Fauji Sugar Mills, Chakhi, Tando Fazal, Bhai Khan Talpur, Saeedpur Takar, and Tando Saindad polling stations were subjected to violence by the SDA workers.
He claimed that these polling stations were virtually taken over by them and 25 PPP workers were injured.
He claimed that rigging by the SDA workers was the order of the day on Oct 10.
He said that an SDA supporter, Dr Ahmed Nunari, was arrested on the spot for impersonation.
He claimed that the polling booths were shifted under a “planned conspiracy” on the eve of the elections.
He appealed to the chief election commissioner to reject the “forged results” and reorder polling on the above provincial seat under the supervision of the army.
ALLEGATIONS: PPP and Awami Tehrik workers of Dadu district have alleged that the supporters of Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah, a National Alliance candidate for NA-231 and PS-71, had attacked the PPP workers in Sann on the polling day as a result of which 10 workers had been injured.
Speaking at a press conference at the press club here on Friday, Dr Mohammad Chhachhar, vice president, PPP, Kotri Taluka, and its activists, Faqirdad Khoso and Syed Zafar Shah, and an Awami Tehrik activist, Mohammad Ramzan Palijo, claimed that Syed Zain Shah, Riaz Chandio, Athar Soomro, and Suraiya Sindhi stormed the polling station at the Sann Primary School and attacked PPP workers.
They claimed that several PPP workers were injured in the attack.
They claimed that the condition of Mohammad Yaqoob was serious and he had to be hospitalized.
They accused the local police of being partisan.
They appealed that justice be provided to them.
ELECTRIFICATION: Hesco chief executive Tariq Arshad has said that in three months, 140 villages of Sindh have been provided electricity.
He said that during the current year, five new grid stations had been commissioned to improve transmission of electricity.
In a statement issued here the other day, he said that to control power breakdowns in lower Sindh, more than 60,000 discs of 66 and 132 KV transmission lines had been replaced in Mirpurkhas, Umerkot, Tharparkar, Badin and Thatta.
He further said that the work on 47.85km 66 KV transmission line had been finished in 30 days, following which, ring system had started working from Oct 9 in Naokot, Pangrio, Mithi, Diplo, Islamkot, Nagarparkar and other towns.
He hoped that this would resolve the perennial problem of sudden power breakdowns.
