MIRPURKHAS, Nov 30: The Pakistan People’s Party MNA Nawab Mohammad Yousuf Talpur has said that the economic interests of the growers of Sindh are being systematically destroyed in a bid to compel them to accept the scheme of Kalabagh Dam, Thal Canal and other controversial irrigation projects.

Talking to a group of growers from Mirpurkhas district, the PPP leader said the present sugarcane crisis and the earlier lower cotton price were aimed at the same target, “to frighten Sindh growers and make them accept the dams.”

He said the agro-economy of Sindh has been given “slow poison” of artificial drop in the prices of cotton produces and the government was playing a game with the growers of Sindh for achieving its nefarious political objectives.

Mr Talpur termed the announcement of federal government for starting sugarcane crushing from Nov 30 as interference in the affairs of the province. “This proves that Sindh Assembly is less powerful then the federal bureaucracy,” he said adding that his party would never leave the growers and farmers of Sindh in lurk and lead their just struggle for better prices.

He said the government was hitting at the economic interests of the province of Sindh. The primary aim of this plan was to weaken the growers economically and coarse them to accept the monstrous Kalabagh Dam.

Mr Talpur told the delegation that Benazir Bhutto was aware of their problems and she was monitoring the whole situation. She had made it clear that party legislators and the workers have to lead the struggle of growers against the economic tyranny of the present regime.