Hyderabad:
Sindh Senior Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon has said that PPP and its provincial government have explicitly stated that they will not allow the construction of six new channels on Indus.
With a ceremony in Tando Jam on Saturday, Memon Askance saw the protest movements that PPP’s opponents are trying to touch the channel’s questions.
“The PPP and Sindh government have said that the channels will not be built, so for what reasons the protests are being staged?” He asked. He reiterated that PPP’s chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Sindh -Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah have rejected the project.
He argued that the political opponents of his party in the province have nothing to show with regard to their performance during their stints in power.
MEMON credited PPP to bury the Kalabagh Dam project and provided provincial autonomy, National Finance Commission (NFC) prize and even rename the NWFP province as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
He accused the opponents of trying to “poison” the mind of Sindh’s people who have always supported the PPP at the election.
“In each election, PPP stands with a uniform over and defeats election allians in the province. The next election will not be any different,” he added.
PML-N led the federal government’s controversial proposal to construct six new channels on the river Indus to irritate the Cholistan Desert in Punjab continues to overlook the links between two central ally.
PPP on January 12, on January 12, Ministry of Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal to reject Sindh’s objections to the channel project as “baseless”.
The party drawn attention to the widespread protests over Sindh against the canals and claimed that the population of the province has expressed serious reservations and anger over the projects.
PPP also questioned the Federal Government’s failure to convene a meeting of the Council for Common Interest (CCI), the constitutional forum for the solution of interprovinsial disputes, to tackle water related concerns.
Later, on February 17, a massive march was led by the Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) and Qaumi Awami Tehreek (Qat) staged between Sehwan in Jamshoro district to Dadu in protest of the federal government’s plan for the new channels.
March saw the participation of thousands of protesters who gathered against what they called an attempt to rob Sindh from his wandering rights.
The leaders approached the participants in several cities along the route and condemned the green Pakistan initiative and claimed it was designed to benefit a handful of elites at the expense of millions of Sindh’s farmers and workers.
