LARKANA: A large number of employees of Larkana Development Authority (LDA) held a protest demonstration at Lahori Muhalla regulator Tuesday, demanding payment of their two years outstanding monthly salaries.

They were holding placards, banners in their hands and staged a sit-in causing disruption in smooth flow of traffic. They also shouted slogans for pressing the rulers to clear their outstanding dues which have not been paid to them for the past 24 months.

Mumtaz Laghari, Ashiq Musheri, Akhtar Sandeelo, Masood Abro, Shafique Odho and others while complaining to media persons alleged that their salaries have been stopped since past two year without assigning any cogent reason against which they had established a protest camp at Jinnah Bagh roundabout much before the 14th anniversary of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto which was stolen during darkness. They said they have already lodged a report against such brutal theft at the Market police station but it has not yet been recovered which is unjust and amounts to suppressing our voice against injustices and rights.

They said denying payment of monthly salaries to 272 LDA employees will force 272 families to undergo starvation and face hardships in this hurricane of inflation and that too in the home district of martyred Bhutto leaders is very astonishing. They said that this elected government which is claiming to be the people’s government also claims that they do give jobs and never rendered anyone jobless then why their salaries have been stopped since past two years which means, they added, they do want us unemployed. They urged the Sindh rulers, whom they voted to power, to restore their salaries and save their family members from further hunger without loss of further time.