SANGHAR, Jan 31: District leaders of the People's Party Parliamentarians have criticized inclusion of over 10,000 names of voters in the electoral list of Khipro taluka and opposed its proposed bifurcation of the taluka.

Talking to journalists in Khipro on Monday, PPP district president Sarfaraz Rajar, member of its Sindh council Jan Mohammad Hingorjo and other party leaders alleged that a large number of fake and duplicate names had been included in the voter list by a ruling party.

They added that in Khipro town only, more than 4,500 such names had been included in the voter list. They alleged that Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim had been creating new districts and talukas only to weaken the PPP strongholds.

They opposed proposed bifurcation of Khipro taluka and said that in the past, Sindhri had twice been made a taluka by including some areas of Khipro taluka into it, but both times, Sindhri taluka had been abolished.

Again, they alleged, a plan was under consideration to bifurcate the Khipro taluka to distribute the PPP votes. They demanded the facility of wireless telephone for Khipro taluka, saying that 50 percent of it consisted of desert area and the communication facility would benefit its people.

PROTEST: Traders took out a procession on Monday in protest against the deteriorating law and order situation in Tando Adam. Three masked gunmen entered the shop of Dhanraj Mal in the Sarafa Bazar and injured him when he threw the keys of the safe on the road.

The firing spread panic and goldsmiths of the market pulled down shutters in protest. After that all shopkeepers in the town closed their shops and assembled at the Mohammadi chowk. They marched towards the police station. Rafi Shaikh, the president of the Sarafa Bazaar Association, said the law and order was worst in the town.