Karachi: The Sindh Assembly on Monday approved Sindh People’s Local Government Ordinance (SPLGO) 2012 amid protest by a handful member of opposition parties in the house.
The bill was tabled by provincial law minister Ayaz Sumro and the lawmakers approved it clause by clause by raising their hands. The majority of 149 Sindh Assembly MPAs supported the bill while 18 members belonging to Pakistan Muslim league-Functional-(PML-F), National People’s Party (NPP), Pakistan Muslim League-Q and Awami National Party (ANP) opposed it and tore apart copies of the bill.
They staged sit-in against non-allotment of seats on the opposition benches and Sindh People’s Local Government ordinance (SPLGO).
They chanted slogans against the new local government ordinance and criticized the speaker for not allotting them seats on opposition benches.
Sindhi nationalists are observing strike against the SPLGO. They termed the SPLGO a conspiracy to divide Sindh.
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