BADIN, Jan 12: Awami Tehrik chief Rasool Bux Palijo has demanded of the government to declare Sindh a calamity-hit area and waive agricultural loans in the province.

Speaking at a press conference here on Saturday, he said had pushed the growers to a position, in which they could not pay back the loans.

Commenting on rampant unemployment in the province, he said denying Sindh of its due water share of job opportunities and other injustices were deepenening already existent sense of deprivation in the province.

He warned if the grievances of Sindh were not redressed and denial of its rights by the government and criminalization of politics continued, it would have grave repercussions.

Palijo made a pathetic appeal to the people of Sindh and Pakistan to save the province.

Earlier, the AT president visited the hunger strike camp of the employees of mechanical division of the Sindh Irrigation and Drainage Authority and assured them of his party’s support.

The employees of the mechanical division of the SIDA continued a token hunger strike for the third consecutive day here on Saturday.

They are protesting against the non-payment of their salaries for the past seven months.