MQM rejects 1979 local government system in Sindh

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KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Tuesday rejected the revival of local government system 1979 in Sindh. The announcement was made during a press conference in Karachi.

Condemning the move, Kunwar Naveed of the Rabita Committee at a press conference, demanded the Sindh government to bring back the 2001 local goverment system. “By enforcing the 1979 system, the PPP has taken away the rights of the representatives of the common people and left the people at the mercy of commissioners and deputy commissioners.”

He said that the through the local system of the Zia regime, the administrative, financial and political rights of the local body authorities has been snatched by the Sindh government.

Karachi, Hyderabad and other cities have become garbage dumps as the authorities don’t have money to pay to their workers, he added.

Voicing their demand, Naveed said they want the 2001 system to be in place so that Sindh is divided into city, town and union councils, and through nazims and UC heads, the problems of the people are addressed and their issues are resolved.

He said that they would raise this issue in the parliament and take legal course.

“The politicians are not in favour of common people getting elected in these local government bodies and solving the problems of their region,” said the MQM leader.

“The local government system was first introduced by Ayub Khan, then Ziaul Haq in 1979, followed by Pervez Musharraf in 2001. Ironically, the LGS law was always imposed by the dictators but the democratically elected assembly never took the step of implementing this law.”

Lauding the role of MQM in this respect, he said that, “MQM, when it was a coalition party in the previous regime, forced the Sindh government to implement LGS. Though the system was not serving the people like MQM wanted, but the party thought that something is better than nothing.”

Almost four months after the Sindh government had revived the 1979 local government system, it formally enacted the law on Monday.

The Pakistan Peoples Party government restored the five administrative districts of Karachi and their municipal corporations, scrapping the town systems in the city in the process.

The town municipal administration and the post of Town Municipal Officer (TMOs) were also abolished.

MQM rejects 1979 local government system in Sindh – The Express Tribune

 

[darkinsky]

atleast before it was administrator KMC who was running the affairs

now even the few development projects which were running will be stopped too

 

[Thəorətic Muslim]

Why no cut up all the Provinces to pre- One Unit?

 

[Leader]

same is what they want in Punjab...






#REJECT !

 

[Patriots]

جمہوریت کے ٹھیکیداروں کے غیر جمہوری کام

 

[pak-marine]

little they can do to change unfortunatly majority is held by pepplay , we have to live under the medevil laws

 

[SBD-3]

Whether people like it or not PPP has the democratic majority in Sindh Assembly. And as per senator saeed Ghani, the implementation is not new and the act was passed at time as MQM left the government. The transition period of implementation of the act completed so the act automatically came into enforcement. MQM left the government on whatever agenda, they played a bad card which have costed them dearly. But no one from MQM would still like to explain why did they decide to sit in opposition at the that crucial juncture?

 

[darkinsky]

Whether people like it or not PPP has the democratic majority in Sindh Assembly. And as per senator saeed Ghani, the implementation is not new and the act was passed at time as MQM left the government. The transition period of implementation of the act completed so the act automatically came into enforcement. MQM left the government on whatever agenda, they played a bad card which have costed them dearly. But no one from MQM would still like to explain why did they decide to sit in opposition at the that crucial juncture?

yes its MQM's fault