The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has declared the names of the candidates who would contest for the slots of Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (HMC) and for Chairmen of 7 out of 9 Town Municipal Corporations (TMCs) of HMC. According to the details shared by the PPP’s local sources here on Monday, the PPP had nominated Kashif Shoro and Sagheer Qureshi as the candidates for Mayor and Deputy Mayor of HMC.
Shoro is a brother of Sindh Irrigation Minister Jam Khan Shoro and he also formerly headed Municipal Committee Qasimabad as its chairman. Qureshi, meanwhile, is the president of PPP Hyderabad district who has not been elected as chairman or vice chairman from any Union Committee of the HMC. The PPP had won 100 out of 160 seats of Chairmen and Vice Chairmen of HMC while after addition of the 53 reserved seats the party position in the HMC stands at 153 out of the house consisting of 241 members.
