GARHI KHUDA BUX:The employees of the Local Government Department, Larkana and Sukkur Divisions, held a large protest demonstration in front of Bhutto leaders’ graves here on Wednesday under the banner of All Pakistan Local Government Workers Federation for regularization of 2012-13 recruitment and disbursement of their monthly salaries through an existing computerized online system of relevant District Accounts Offices.

They were holding red flags, large banners, placards in their hands and were also shouting slogans in favour of their just demands. They tried to enter the Bhutto leaders graveyard but they were prevented by the police deployed there for security reasons.

Their leaders Shoukat Buriro, Ali Mardan Shaikh, Majid Jiskani, Rauf Dasti and others said that they had come here to make a complaint to martyred Bhutto leaders about their party’s leaders fake commitments but they were forcibly not allowed to enter the Mazars. They said that they had no other choice but to stage a sit-in outside the boundary wall and protest for acceptance of their just demands.

They said all government servants are paid their monthly salaries on the last day of every month but they are only unfortunate government employees who have to wait till 10th of every month to get their payment and that too with untold deductions.

They said that employees legally recruited during 2012-13 are being victimized by the corrupt bureaucracy on the pretext of bogus appointments but the rulers have forgotten that they have been discharging their legal and moral duties since the past ten years then how can they be targeted for ulterior motives as they have also been paid monthly salaries through bank accounts.

They urged the provincial government to order disbursement of monthly salaries through online system and issue notification of regularization of 2012-13 appointees to end massive corruption in the LG department or else, they warned, they will one again be agitating for securing their basic rights which will continue till their just demands are lawfully accepted.