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MQM MPAs stage protest against LB black law
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (NQM)’s members of provincial assembly (MPAs) in Sindh staged a protest against the Local government Amendment Ordinance-2013 on Monday here, Geo News reported.
Addressing MQM parliamentary committee meeting in Sindh assembly chamber, MQM parliamentary leader, Syed Sardar Ahmad said that the existing LB Amendment Ordinance was a black law through which the rural and urban population of Sindh has been divided.
Following the meeting, talking to media Syed Sardar Ahmad said the rights of the people of Sindh have usurped through the Ordinance in question and enquired why this Ordinance was not brought into the assembly? He said that the recent LB Amendment Ordinance has been issued in retrospective three months backdated.
MQM’s deputy parliamentary leader, Khawaja Izharul Hassan on this occasion said that the common man would not be empowered by the Ordinance, as the Sindh government wants to keep its control and power intact through the bureaucracy. Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) gives the specter of a rural party, he said.
He further said that all the political parties in the province should get equal opportunity for participation in the LB elections, while efforts are afoot to derive desired results through designed Ordinance and added perhaps, Sindh government wants that all other parties should boycott the elections.
Later, a protest rally led by Syed Sardar Ahmad was taken out in which large number of MQM workers also participated. The rally voicing slogans against the black law marched from assembly building to the Karahi Press Club.
Courtesy www.geo.tv