BADIN, Aug 28: People’s Party Parliamenatarian legislators from Badin district have rejected the local body elections’ results and called for fresh polls. PPP district president and member of the provincial assembly, Dr Sikandar Mandhro, MPA Amjad Shah and MPA Ali Nawaz Chandio levelled allegations of rigging at a press conference here on Sunday.

They said that delimitation of districts was a first step of rigging taken by the government.

They said Hyderabad had been handed over to a particular group due to delimitation.

The PPP leaders said the Sindh chief minister used public revenue to change the polling staff and polling stations to get favourable results in the polls.

They said that Sadiq Khawaja was posted intentionally at the Kadhan police station to rig the polls.

The leaders alleged that the opposition candidates were kidnapped by police and government supporters.

They alleged that a polling station of Talhar union council was deliberately shifted to Thebo village from where candidates of Thebo biradari were contesting.

The PPP leaders showed some election result sheets, signed by the polling officers, that the Awam Dost Panel candidate had obtained 2,504 votes while his rival had received only 2,479 votes, but later the result was changed.

MPA Ali Nawaz Chandio showed some of the ballot papers from three UCs, Khorwah, Ahmed Rajo and Golarchi, duly stamped and issued by presiding officers carrying no symbols of the ADP candidates.

Dr Mandhro claimed that he had informed the chief election commissioner on telephone and in writing about rigging but he did not do anything.

The MPA said they would not boycott the polls for talukas and district nazims so that the anti-democratic forces would not get a chance to play foul.