LARKANA, May 21: The district council succeeded in constituting 23 sub-committees and passed a resolution against the increase in the rents of evacuee trust properties even while 20 members boycotted the session on Monday.

Nazir Ahmed Bughio, the convener of the district council, Larkana, chaired the session, which started two hours late.

The session was disrupted by the uproar from the boycotting members as soon as Amir Bakhsh Gaad, the chief whip of the district council, finished reading the nominations on 32 sub-committees whose constitution had already been delayed by eight months.

The boycott by Ali Sher Daipar and Taj M. Baloch was supported by 20 members including four women councillors who lambasted the session for its inability to implement the resolutions passed by it.

Among those who boycotted the session were Badruddin Abbasi, Saeed Jatoi, Ali Sher Daipar, Safdar Mithani, Athar Abbasi Solangi, Sikandar Ali Channa, Luhano Khan Burdee, M. Ibrahim Khoso, Abdul Hamid Jaisar, Ali Gohar Chandio, Nawab Ali Tunio, Bashir Ahmed Shaikh, Muhib Ali Chandio, Farooque Ahmed Jatoi, M. Ayub Ansari, Ms Nasim Sahito, Ms Iqbal Bano Tunio, Ms Khadija Abbasi, and Ms Zainab Soomro.

Some members tried to pacify them but in vain.

Talking to this correspondent, the members who boycotted the session alleged that all the resolutions which had been passed unanimously stood unimplemented and the voice of the district council was being gagged as members were being both ignored and neglected.

They said the district council had virtually lost its validity and credibility in the sense that the departments concerned had not even implemented the resolutions which had been passed by it.

Athar Abbas Solangi, who was nominated as head of the law sub-committee, targeted the chief whip, Amir Bakhsh Gaad, for controlling all affairs.

The lady councillors complained that they were being neglected.

However, they supported the voting proposal prior to constituting various sub-committees taking the session into confidence.

The session after being boycotted by 20 councillors unanimously carried out the resolution against the unilateral increase in the rents of evacuee trust properties, which was tabled by Barkat Shaikh.

It also okayed the formation of sub-committees.