HYDERABAD, April 29: The stage is all set for the presidential referendum in the district as 10,690 polling staff departed for their polling stations all over the district on Monday.
Special polling stations have been set up in the two jails, at the main bus stops, railway station, airport, Radio Pakistan, textile/oil mills and factories etc.
An amount of Rs6 million is being spent in the head of remuneration and diet expenses of the polling staff.
The polling will begin at 9:00am and will continue till 7:00pm.
The ballots have been counted and given to the staff, along with other material, including ballot boxes, indelible inks and other documents.
As many as 1886 polling stations have been established in the district.
The police have hired hundreds of buses, Suzukis and other sorts of vehicles to transport the polling personnel to their respective polling stations.
An amount of Rs950,000 is reported to has been earmarked for the transportation.
Two polling assistants have also been deputed at each polling station to assist the voters and see the performance of the polling staff and ensure smooth polling.
The presiding officers after counting the ballots will report it to the district and sessions judge.
QJP: The Qaumi Jamhoori Party (QJP) on Monday announced support for the presidential referendum and said that the support was not for any individual but in the larger interest of the country.
Speaking at a news conference at the press club here, the leaders of the QJP, Hyderabad district chapter, Mohammad Momin Khan Momin, Haseen Raza Khan, Dost Mohammad Sarai, Jay Kumar, Ms Shabnam Gul and others said that it was due to the efforts of Gen Pervez Musharraf that the country had got rid of the corrupt politicians and the power had been transferred at the grass-roots level.
They said that Gen Musharraf had also taken steps to eliminate the religious fanaticizm and violence and added there had been visible improvement in the economic activities.
They expressed the hope that after the referendum, steps would also be taken to introduce land reforms and eliminate the use of money in politics.