MULTAN, Aug 7: Public representatives from hill-torrent-hit Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur districts are conspicuous with their absence in a time when their constituents have been devastated by flooding and lack of relief activities, Dawn has learnt.

The elected representatives who have failed to carry out rescue and relief works are: MNA Khwaja Sheraz Mahmood and MPAs Mir Badshah Qaisrani, Fatah Muhammad Buzdar and Amjad Farooq Khosa from DG Khan, and MNAs Jaffar Khan Leghari and Dost Muhammad Mazari and MPAs Sher Ali Gorchani, Athar Hassan Gorchani, Amanullah Dreshak and Shaukat Husain Mazari from Rajanpur.

The constituencies of the stated people were hit in one way or another due to hill-torrent and rains but they failed to be with their people in such a difficult time.

Sher Ali Gorchani, Amanullah Dreshak and Shaukat Mazari landed in flood-hit areas when Adviser to Chief Minister Zulfiqar Khosa came there on Tuesday, while Dost Muhammad Mazari was only seen in the area when Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif visited Rajanpur and DG Khan on Thursday.

The cell phones of most of the representatives were switched off when Dawn called them for their comment.

MNA Khwaja Sheraz and MPA Shaukat Mazari claimed that they were visiting the flood-hit areas with relief items.

Veteran politician Mir Balagh Sher Mazari said that Rojhan was badly affected due to flooding that displaced thousands of people. He said he did not visit the calamity-hit areas because of unavailability of relief items.

If politicians have failed to rise to the occasion, political and religious parties have also failed to carry out any rescue and relief work in both districts.

People from Rajanpur said that if the share of political parties in relief and rescue work was zero, some members of a religious party were observed collecting donations. However, there party was not seen distributing these donations to the affected people.