Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah Monday expressed his gratitude to the people of the province for reposing their confidence in the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in local bodies elections and said that now the mayors of metropolitan and municipal corporations, including Karachi and chairmanships of other district councils would be `Jiyalas’ of Shaheed Mohterma Benazir Bhutto.
“I am thankful to the people of Karachi for acknowledging the services of the PPP government in Sindh by voting it for the local bodies,” he said.
Mr Shah in a statement issued from the CM House on Monday said that the people of the province have expressed confidence in Pakistan Peoples Party during the local bodies election for which he thanked them. Murad Ali Shah also extended congratulations to President Asif Ali Zardari, Chairman PPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, and to party workers for taking a landslide victory in the local bodies election in Sindh.
The chief minister said that the people from Kashmore to Karachi and Karachi to Tharparkar have voted for PPP in the local bodies election.
“Your confidence in our party is the manifestation of the services our party and the government has been rendering to the people without discrimination,” he said. Mr. Shah said that the first and utmost task was the restoration of law and order in Karachi which had affected all kinds of activities, including social, educational, and business. “After the restoration of law and order, we started the reconstruction of roads, underpasses, flyovers, and stormwater drains,” he said.
Murad Ali Shah said that he has been fighting for the rights of the people of the province since the NFC award, water share, census, and development projects in the federal PSDP. “Our leaders have laid their lives for the rights of the people and democracy,” he said. The CM said that during heavy rains and floods, he, his ministers, and elected representatives remained with the affected people and served them.
