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SPLGO: ANP boycotts Parliamentary sessionsISLAMABAD: Awami National Party (ANP) Friday boycotted Parliamentary sessions in protest against the Sindh People’s Local Government Ordinance (SPLGO), Geo News reported.
Talking to media outside the parliament house, Senator Haji Adeel said allies were not taken into confidence on SPLGO, as such, the lone Sindh ANP minister would be resigning from the provincial cabinet.
Later Amir Nawab submitted his resignation to Chief Minister Sindh Qaim Ali Shah.
ANP leader Bushra Gauhar said that we were the ally of People’s Party in Sindh and the federation, but we were not taken into confidence about this Ordinance. She said this Ordinance has been issued for pleasing one party only, "we do not accept the decision taken overnight".
She also vowed that the boycott of both the houses of the parliament would continue until the withdrawal of the Ordinance and added that a future strategy would be announced later.
Senator Shahi Syed said that this was not the war of ANP and MQM---it was the issue of the people over there. Terming the Ordinance a black law, Shahi Syed said that what was the purpose of issuing SPLGO when elections of the local bodies not being held in one or two months. He said issuing the Ordinance was the practice of the autocrats; it was not justified in any way from a democratic government, he said.
Courtesy www.geo.tv