It is high time workers in Pakistan should side with PPP, its leadership for their rights: Saeed Ghani
Ghani lamented that workers had been the worst sufferers of the ongoing economic instability and unprecedented inflation in the country.
It is high time workers in Pakistan should side with PPP, its leadership for their rights: Saeed Ghani
Karachi : Sindh Labour and Human Resources Minister, Saeed Ghani, has said it is high time that the fraternity of workers in the country should decide to side with the Pakistan People’s Party and its leadership that stand fully committed to the cause of the welfare of the labourers.
The Sindh Labour Minister stated this on Monday while addressing a programme held here at the Arts Council to mark International Workers’ Day on May 1. The People’s Labour Bureau Karachi Division organised the programme.
Ghani said the process of privatization was the biggest heist in the history of the country that had weakened Pakistan. He said that up to 90 per cent of the institutions, which were privatized, had closed down and their land had been sold out.
He said the PPP didn’t oppose the process of improving the state-run agencies in the country.
He also paid tribute to the workers in Chicago who had laid down their lives for the cause of the welfare and well-being of the workers all over the world.
He told the audience at the programme that the PPP was the only political party in the country, which stood fully committed to the cause of uplift and welfare of the labourers in the country. He said that no other party in the country had taken practical steps for the welfare of the workers as was done by the PPP’s regimes.
Ghani lamented that workers had been the worst sufferers of the ongoing economic instability and unprecedented inflation in the country.
He said it was highly unfortunate that the media, judiciary, and other political parties were completely indifferent to the sufferings of the labourers as they had other priorities to attend to.
The Sindh Labour Minister recalled that earlier during his stint in the Senate of Pakistan he had presented a constitutional amendment bill to give due representation to the labourers in the parliament. He lamented that other than the PPP other mainstream political parties had opposed the bill.
Ghani said that workers were in a majority in Pakistan but they didn’t have any representation in the parliament where legislation was adopted about them. At present the labourers have representation only in the municipal agencies, he said.
He mentioned that the political parties derived their power from the workers. He said that influential quarters in the country wouldn’t be able to do anything if the workers stood fully united for securing their due rights.
He was of the view that the condition of the workers had to be improved as a pre-requisite for overall improvement in the country. He lamented that the overall condition of the workers in Pakistan was as bad as the state of Chicago workers in 1886. He said the PPP Chairman stood fully committed to the cause of serving the labourers in the country in the best possible manner.
He informed the audience that once the Benazir Mazdoor Cards were issued to all the registered industrial workers in Sindh the same would be issued to all the leftover labourers, including self-employed workers, in the province as it was as big a task as was the launching of Benazir Income Support Programme in Pakistan.