KARACHI: Provincial Minister for Food and Minority Affairs Hari Ram Kishori Lal met delegations from different areas of Mirpurkhas division here Saturday.

 

Talking to the delegations, Lal said that a network of development works had been laid in Mirpurkhas division from which the people were benefiting to the fullest. The provincial minister said that wheat procurement centers had been set up for this year from where bardana was being given on merit basis.

 

The minister further said that PPP is a people’s party which talks only about the rights of the people in every forum. Lal said that PPP believed in public service for which several steps were being taken in practice. He said that Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was doing principled politics like his grandfather Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and mother Mohtarma Shaheed Rani.

 

He said that PPP had always pursued politics of public interest. Lal said that in the wider interest of the people, the PDM would have to reconsider its policies. Talking about the recent announcement of the Prime Minister, the minister said that the announcement of giving Rs 400 billion for Sindh was just an announcement made by the PTI government every time because before that he had announced to give Rs1100 billion for Karachi which was only an announcement so far.

 

Reminding the Niazi government of his promise, the provincial minister said that Imran Khan Niazi had also announced to give five million houses and one crore jobs to the people but so far no one has got a job or a house. The minister that the federal government did not give any relief to the people even in the holy month of Ramadan.