TOBA TEK SINGH: Scores of men, women and children on Saturday blocked the TobaChichawatni road for two hours by staging a sit-in against demolition of their houses during an antiencroachment operation at Chak 54/2 GB Tukra, Kalma Chowk, Kamalia.

The protesters` representatives, including Muzammal Bhutta, said that in three antiencroachment operations, the revenue department had razed 120 houses of the poor in their village because they had not voted for the PML-N in 2013 election. They claimed they had allotment orders which were issued under the Chief Minister`s Jinnah Abadi scheme and electricity meters had also been installed outside theirhouses but despite that they had been made homeless and were forced to spend nights in the open in severe cold along with their women and children.

They chanted slogans against the PML-N parliamentarians while they also raised the slogan `Go Nawaz Go.

DSP Malik Muhammad Usman held talks with them and assured them that the authorities and district administration would be apprised of their demands over which they dispersed.

On the other hand, Ex-MNA Riaz Fatyana claimed the villagers whose houses had been razed had voted for him that`s why the ruling party parliamentarians were taking revenge from them.

Tehsildar Rana Muhammad Iqbal refuted the allegations, saying the houses were constructed on the state land.