LARKANA, Jan 10: The pro-Sindh National Front and Pakistan Muslim League-Q members joined hands on Saturday to move a no-confidence motion against District Naib Nazim Syed Ali Raza Shah who was backed by pro-PML-F and PPP members.

Ali Hassan Sariyo and Bashir Hussain Shiakh of pro-PML-Q Khushhal Pakistan Panel submitted the motion to the senior most presiding officer of the council after finding the naib nazim’s office locked.

The motion alleged that the naib nazim was corrupt, ineligible and working against public interests and that he had failed to summon 50 mandatory sessions of the council.

He had summoned only two sessions from January 2008 to December 2008 in contravention to section 191 and its sub-section 1 while the new monitoring committees were formed against the decision taken by the council in October 2008, which hurt the council’s sanctity because the bodied had been formed unconstitutionally after forging ‘false’ minutes of the meeting, they said.

They said that in violation of the Sindh Local Government Ordinance 2001 the district coordination officer was authorised to re-appropriate funds of the budget, which was the discretionary right vested under SLGO 2001 in the district council either to pass or reject it.

They called for probe by Provincial Local Government Commission into how and where the Rs10 million were spent which had been placed at the disposal of district naib nazim.

They called for removing the naib nazim immediately and installing a new one in line with the spirit of SLGO-2001.

Talking to journalists, Babu Serwar Siyal and Munawar Abro of KPP and SNF said the Larkana Alliance had been revived to work jointly in the district. Talks with PPP-SBN chairperson were under way and she would soon join the alliance, they said.

They would formulate a strategy to give a political response to what they called ‘outsiders’ who came to power by taking advantage of people’s emotions.

The alliance enjoys support of 32 of 63 members while the pro-PPP Awam Dost Panel had only 23 members and six were independents.

The alliance leaders were optimistic that they would get the motion passed against the district naib nazim who was enjoyed support of PML-F and now PPP had also put its weight behind him.

Baddaruddain Abbasi, the senior most presiding officer would not only summon the session of the council but also chair it, the sources said.

Mr Abbasi said that after receiving the no-confidence motion he had summoned the session on Jan 14 to decide the fate of naib nazim under section 47’s sub-section 2 of SLGO 2001.