‘PPP has forsaken displaced persons’

PTI leaders slams Sindh govt over 'failure to provide rain relief'

HYDERABAD:

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and Sindh Baitul Maal chief Hunaid Lakhani has accused the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)-led Sindh government of forsaking people displaced due to rains in the province.

"The provincial government is not providing any kind of relief to them in Umerkot, where there are many homeless persons," said Lakhani while talking to the media in Umerkot district on Sunday.

He said rains and the faulty irrigation system caused flooding, which brought about devastation in the rural Sindh. "[And now], people have begun to suffer from several health conditions," he added.

Also speaking on the occasion, PTI MNA Lal Malhi, who belongs to Umerkot, blamed the provincial government for "only putting up a display of relief efforts and rehabilitation activities in Karachi."

"The reality is that the Sindh government hasn't paid any attention to people's plight," he said.

The MPA said if the welfare organisations had not stepped in to alleviate the sufferings of rain-affected and displaced people, there would have been no relief work at all.

Malhi lamented that diseases were spreading fast among rain-affected people with little, if any, health services being provided by the government.

"The road connections for many villages haven't been restored yet," said Malhi, blaming the PPP government for once again disappointing people in their hour of need.

He also praised the Sindh Baitul Maal for reaching out to the affected people.

 

 

Published in The Express Tribune, September 21^st, 2020