Takkar community on Saturday staged a demo against illegal occupation of their Temple in Qasimabad by land-mafia led by former PPP Union Council (UC) Nazim Matiari. A large number of families from community including children and women protested outside Hyderabad Press Club (HPC). They chanted slogans against former UC Nazim and demanded from Sindh govt to vacate illegal occupation of temple.

Leading the protest, former Councillor of UC Qasimabad, Amar Das Takkar said that his community was living in village Wali Muhammad Diskan, Qasimabad since last more than 50 years where they had also constructed Temple. There are more than 50 houses of his community in the villages and majority of them are workers, they said adding recently land mafia led by former UC Nazim Syed Sodhal Shah have occupied illegally temple and its area.

"Sodhal Shah is threatening us to faced dire consequences, if his community resists in occupying the temple", he said. We are Hindu and very poor and cannot do anything against him because PPP local leadership is supporting him, he said. We appeal PPP Leadership and Sindh govt to help in vacating the Temple from illegal occupation and also provide protection from land mafia.

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