PPP Stages Sit-in Against Water Scarcity
Umer Jamshaid Published May 16, 2018 | 09:37 PM
The workers of Pakistan Peoples Party Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas Divisions led by opposition leader in National Assembly Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah staged dharna here at Hyderabad Bypass near Hatri on Wednesday against the shortage of irrigation water as well as announced and unannounced load shedding
HYDERABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 16th May, 2018 ) :The workers of Pakistan Peoples Party Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas Divisions led by opposition leader in National Assembly Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah staged dharna here at Hyderabad Bypass near Hatri on Wednesday against the shortage of irrigation water as well as announced and unannounced load shedding.
Addressing the participants of dharna, Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah said people of Sindh were facing artificial water shortage and hours long power breakdown, which he demanded should be stopped. He said that PPP always struggled to strengthen the federation and for the rights of common people of the country and it would never allow any discrimination with the countrymen.
At present, he claimed that the people of Sindh have been deprived of water and power which would not be tolerated at any cost.
Sindh is also not getting its due share of water, he said and demanded relief to the people of Sindh with immediate effect.
He said that PPP would stage dharna with millions of people at Sindh-Punjab border if the situation continued in future. The President PPP Sindh Nisar Khuhuro said that Sindh was facing acute shortage of water while hours long announced and unannounced load shedding also made their life miserable.
He demanded the stoppage of such attitude with the people of Sindh. Among other PPP leaders, Moula Bux Chandio, Nawab Yousuf Talpur, Mir Munawar Talpur, Nafisa Shah, Rashid Rabbani, Sassui Palijo, Shagufta Jummani, Aajiz Dhamra, Aijaz Jakhrani, Jam Khan Shoro, Ali Nawaz Shah Rizvi and Saghir Qureshi also attended dharna.
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