The Federal Minister for Water and Power Liaqat Ali Khan Jatoi has said that the recent flood water flowing from Balochistan caused inundation of around 100 villages of Mehar, K N Shah and Johi and tens of hundred people are homeless whom the government at all levels is trying to provide relief and rehabilitate them but the opposition is trying to shine their politics by exploiting the flood and spreading the rumours.
Liaqat Ali Jatoi while addressing to a press conference at his house, at Dadu, on Sunday, further said that the opposition leaders including the local MNA and MPA are absent rather than to help the flood affected people but they are accusing the government while sitting at Hyderabad.
He said that he himself is in flood affected areas since last three weeks and his district Nazim son Karim Ali Jatoi, the MPAs and workers of ruling party are shoulder to shoulder with government to adopt all out efforts to provide ration, shelters and medical assistance to the people displaced in flood.
He said that around 2,000 acres agricultural lands of his family is inundated by flood waters but the opposition leaders who do not dare to visit the affected areas, have alleged that I got inundated many villages to save my land.
The federal minister further said that they have carried out development in the Dadu district, 300 villages have been electrified in last two years while the roads, schools, health centres and other development works have been completed.
He said that the development of Gorag Hill Station at Khirthar Range of mountains is also a great achievement of his team while his opponents have only got votes from innocent people and exploited their emotions. He advised the leadership of PPP to avoid from lies and serve people with full dedication otherwise the people will throw them out of district.
The federal minister announced that the floodwater entering in to Sindh due to draining out into River Indus through Manchhar, has now started to decrease and with the grace of Allah Almighty the big towns of district have been kept safe from inundation.
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