LARKANA: Masons and labourers held a protest demonstration at Jinnah Bagh in Larkana on Saturday, demanding an increase in their daily wages.
Carrying daggers and other construction material in their hands, they chanted slogans against the Sindh and federal governments. Labourers including Ayaz Brohi, Nazir Khaskheli, Nek Muhammad Jamali and others complained on the occasion that Imran Khan’s government had failed to give any relief to the poor who came to power in the name of change but the new rulers who claimed to take the country on development path had also miserably failed to give any relief to the poverty-stricken masses.
They said instead of enhancing their wages, the new rulers were busy increasing petrol prices fortnightly due to which prices of all essential commodities had gone beyond the reach of labourers. They said gas and electricity rates had forced the people to steal and live in this sizzling hot weather because only the elite could pay the monthly bills. They said that the rulers had snatched two meals from their starving kids.
They said after a long day’s hard labour, they were being paid Rs600 only which was not enough to run home expenses as a hurricane of inflation had hit them hard. They said that elected representatives had been constantly making hollow commitments to them that their wages would be increased, but they had never implemented their words.
The laborers said that the prime minister recently announced to give Rs2,000 to the poor per month but they are still waiting. They demanded a price hike control, their inclusion in the BISP and increase in their daily wages amount so that their children could be able to live.