FAISALABAD, June 19: The tehsil municipal administration opposition has announced it will observe hunger strike and take to roads over what they called corruption by tehsil Nazim.

Talking to newsmen on Wednesday, opposition leader Chaudhry Muhammad Ashraf alleged the TMA officials had been appropriating public funds with the connivance of Nazim Chaudhry Mumtaz Ali Cheema.

He said the cleanliness system in the tehsil had been inoperative and heaps of refuse could be seen on every corner of Faisalabad.

He claimed attack on elected councillors and newsmen during a conference was pre-planned. If the police did not register a case against the Nazim and his blue-eyed, he threatened all the opposition members would observe strike at the Clock Tower Intersection.

It was learnt some youths had with the Nazim’s connivance beaten a son of the opposition leader when he was speaking at a news conference at his residence on last Sunday.

ELECTROCUTED: A boy was electrocuted in Mohallah Elahiabad of Batala Colony police station here on Tuesday night. Tahir Sabir (15) received a shock when he touched the button of water pump which was electrified. He fell on the ground and died on the spot.