Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) on Wednesday warned the Sindh government of taking to the streets if constituency boundaries were not drawn again in Karachi. The party has already rejected the recently held local government elections in Karachi and Hyderabad.

“Now we’re going to go out on the streets,” said MQM-P convener Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, while addressing to media in Karachi. “We will go to the public from the first week of February, before this, the Sindh government and the Election Commission should start the delimitation again.”

He was flanked by Farooq Sattar, who recently rejoined that MQM-P, just days before the polls.

“You all know that local bodies elections have been held in Karachi and Hyderabad, and those who have won look ashamed as history will never forgive them.”

He went on criticise the provincial government for withdrawing the Sindh Local Government Act 10(1). “I want to make this statement in public that, on December 31, 2021, through the Sindh Local Government Act 10(1), they made the delimitation of constituencies,” he said. “Then, on January 12, 2023, the notification was withdrawn.”

“This means that on January 13, there were no union council constituencies in Karachi and Hyderabad,” said Siddiqui asking when the notification was withdrawn, and what kind of election is that in which the delimitation was over.

He demanded a constitutional and legal justification solution to the matter.

“What is the political status of these elections? The turnout of this election was not more than four to five percent and there were no constituencies in Karachi on Election Day,” he added.