Small growers hold another sit-in for water.

DADU -- Small growers, who had held a day-long sit-in at Kolachi Mori near Khairpur Nathan Shah town on Saturday before their protest was suppressed by police during a violent clash, held another sit-in on Sunday at the Mehar-Larkana section of Indus Highway, suspending vehicular traffic for six hours.

The tail-end growers are protesting against local irrigation officials for allegedly diverting their share of water to influential landowners from the heads of Dadu and Rice canals amid start of the paddy sowing season.

They say unavailability of water in the season would cause heavy losses to them in terms of failure to cultivate paddy crop.

On the second consecutive day of protest, the growers also condemned police for using force and injuring 20 of the several hundred protesters who had taken part in Saturday's sit-in at Kolchi Mori.

Police had used force after some of the protesters had damaged people's stuck-up vehicles by resorting to stone-throwing. Some others had manhandled and injured five policemen.

Before sitting under the tent they had pitched at Awan Mori in Mehar on Sunday, the growers marched through different roads in the town to condemn police action and irrigation officials' nexus with the big landowners.

Their leaders, Sikandar Sodhar, Ghulam...

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