GDA lawmaker resigns after feeling 'helpless' to aid flood victims

A Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) MPA from PS-11 Larkana-II resigned on Wednesday as he felt ‘helpless’ in aiding flood victims in his constituency.  

In a hand-written resignation letter submitted to Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani, Moazzam Ali Abbasi said he vacated the seat as he felt ‘helpless’ and ‘agitated’ in finding solutions to aid flood victims.

He went on to state that he was tendering his resignation as a mark of protest against a system that was ‘corrupt’ and ‘mismanaged’.

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“In the wake of the recent calamity in Sindh, it was evident that Government Administration under current ruling Pakistan People’s Party has miserably failed to deliver,” he wrote in the letter.

“Sindh is suffering today under these circumstances due to sheer incompetence, mismanagement and corruption which has seeped into the government departments,” he wrote, identifying health, agriculture and irrigation as a few of the many departments worst-hit by corruption.

“Under these circumstances, I feel helpless and agitated as a representative of my constituency since I could not deliver to the people,” he wrote.

Abbasi, who was a joint candidate of GDA and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) won the PS-11 Larkana-II by-election defeating PPP’s Jameel Soomro in October 2019.