THATTA, Aug 5: Hundreds of rain victims took out protest processions and staged sit-ins on the main roads in Thatta, Mirpur Bathoro and Jhoke Sharif towns on Tuesday against the local administration for not supplying them relief goods.

In Mirpur Bathoro, the affected people marched through the main thoroughfares and chanted slogans against the district Nazim, the DCO and the local administration.

The vehicular traffic was remained suspended on the Hyderabad-Sujawal Road for more than one and half hour.

The processions converged at the Bus Stand Chowk where Muttahida Qaumi Movement MPA Heer Soho, Thatta District Council member Ayesha Soho, People’s Party Parliamentarians’ Sindh Council member Aijaz Ali Khwaja, Sindh Tarraqi Pasand Party leader Mehboob Shah and others delivered speeches.

They alleged that only the favourites of the Shirazi group were being provided with relief items.

They said relief camps set up in the district were overcrowded and the people there were suffering from various diseases.

The speakers demanded that the district and sessions judge should be entrusted the task of distributing relief goods and preparing a survey report sought by Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali through the Sindh government.

In Thatta town, the protesters staged a sit-in on the National Highway in front of the local press club.

They said food was served to them only when district officers visited relief camps.

In Jhoke Sharif, some two hundred rain-affected people staged a sit-in on the Jhoke-Hyderabad Road and later observed a hunger strike.

Meanwhile, the Deewan Sugar Mills, Budho Talpur, sent an ambulance and a medicine consignment and the Baqai Foundation offered 25 beds, medicines and food to the affected people.

PPP: People’s Party Parliamentarians MPAs Sassui Palijo and Humera Alwani, after visiting the Thatta coastal belt, told journalists that no relief camps were set up there.

They criticized the district administration for ignoring rain victims in the coastal belt.

They demanded that Thatta and Badin should be declared as calamity-hit districts.

RAIN: Sujawal, Mirpur Bathoro, Chuhar Jamali, Jati and other parts of the Thatta district received light rain on Tuesday.