According to details, the GDA mobilized a large number of masses and political workers here on Sunday to muster support of voters for the coming general polls. Addressing the rally, the GDA leaders said that they will form a government in Sindh after the next general elections and help the people to get rid of corrupt politicians.
Senior political leaders including PML-F leader Syed Sibghatullah Shah Rashdi, former Chief Minister Sindh Ghous Ali Shah, Arbab Rahim, Zulfiqar Mirza, Ayaz Latif Palijo, MPA Nusrat Saher Abbasi, federal minister for overseas Syed Saddar-u-Din Shah and others addressed the rally. Syed Saddar-u-Din Shah said that people of Sindh now have a political alternate. He said as there was a monopoly of a political party in the province, the GDA was formed to give the oppressed and inarticulate people of the province an alternative political platform and voice. He said that they will bring a change in Sindh through a democratic process. Talking about women, Shah urged people to educate their girls because well-educated women would play a due role in future.
NPP leader Ghulam Murtaza Jatoi said that the GDA is fighting corruption mafia in Sindh and they are aimed at forming a truly democratic government in Sindh. He alleged that the PPP has ruined Sindh during last 10 years to its rule.
Jatoi said that they have always struggled for Pakistan, adding now the GDA would contest and counter PPP in every constituency of Sindh. He regretted that Sindh had gone back about 50 years in terms of development and now people have to come forward and fight the corrupt politicians so that their province is put on the path of progress.
He said the people of Sindh are looking towards judiciary, and not to government, for redressal of their miseries.
Ayaz Latif Palijo said Sindh has ample natural resources, and it already contributes 70 per cent of revenue share to the country but the people of Sindh are compelled to feed their children on charity cards. He alleged that all institutions of Sindh have been ruined by the ruling PPP. He said that the PPP was responsible for the present dismal condition of Sindh including its backwardness in education.
Criticizing the incumbent provincial government, he vowed that they will give a tough time to the PPP in the next general elections.
Former home minister Zulfiqar Mirza said the apex court has issued arrest warrants of Rao Anwar, where as Asif Zardari was calling him his brave boy. He said he had already revealed in a press conference that Rao Anwar was Zardari's henchman. He recalled that he had also revealed about the MQM and said that Altaf was an agent of RAW and now entire Pakistan knows that Altaf is enemy of Pakistan.
Those who were killed in the fake encounters in Karachi by Rao Anwar were innocent sons of Innocent mothers, Mirza said
Sibghatullah Shah Rashdi said due to the sacrifices of military today we are living in peace and doing what we want to do. He said no any political party can claim credit of fighting terrorism as terrorism was eliminated by brave personnel of rangers and other LEAs. Shah said that the PPP has already been wiped out from Punjab and soon it will also be thrown out from Sindh. He alleged that the PPP has broken all records of corruption in Pakistan.