Pakistan people's Party (PPP) Sindh chapter General Secretary Waqar Mehdi on Wednesday said that Census Bureau has made the Census a controversial exercise with the initial census results it has recently announced. In press statement released from PPP media Cell here he said that the Census Bureau has on the pattern of Census held in 1998 played what it could to deprive Sindh province of its due rights and share from the resources by dramatic reduction in population of Sindh province. People of Sindh will never accept this highly engineered Census, which is only meant to keep depriving the people of their due rights.
He said that the Census bureau purposefully reduced the population of Sindh so as to skillfully usurp due shares for Sindh from the divisible pool. He said that PPP at the start of the census expressed serious concerns on the tactical maneuvering in the process of recording data for the Census and had warned that the entire process was full of ambiguity, lacked transparency and was flawed. However, the federal government as usual ignored those concerns of PPP, which was nothing but part of federal government's ill-will and pure negativity.
PPP general secretary Sindh said that the incumbent federal government of PML-N in past four years has served to widen the gap among the federating units and the people of smaller provinces sense acute insecurity, deprivation and discrimination. He said that the situation that emerged with the announcement of Census results could have been averted only if the federal government had behaved sanely and taken appropriate measures for the redressal of the complaints and grievances.
Mehdi categorically warned the federal government that it would not allow the later to usurp the rights of the people of Sindh and would raise its voice and protest on all available forums. In this context, the party is preparing to convene an All Party Conference shortly for which preparations are underway so that a unanimous declaration on the engineered Census could be presented with regard to rights and demands of Sindh province.-PR
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