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‘If army man can be president, I can be MPA’

Staff Report

KARACHI: If an employee of the Army can contest as the president of Pakistan, why can’t I apply for membership of the Sindh Assembly, argued Peeral Dayo, a seventh-grade employee of the Sindh government, who has submitted his nomination papers for an MPA seat.

Dayo, who is the president of the All Pakistan Clerks Association (APCA) of the population department and leader of the Sindh Employee Alliance, is an employee of the Population and Welfare Department of the Government of Sindh and is standing from the constituency of PS-36, Larkana.

“I am contesting the elections to represent employees on the floor of the assembly. I feel that they have been ignored and political interference in merit at every stage has disillusioned employees,” Dayo told Daily Times in Karachi.

He said that during former chief minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim’s tenure, the Sindh government slaughtered merit. “When some honest officials resisted, they were transferred. The transfer of former chief secretary Ejaz Qureshi was also part of that.”

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