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Sit-ins have lost their momentum: JI chief
* Haq says masses to blame for their plight for always electing waderas, feudal lords
INPSHIKARPUR: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Ameer Sirajul Haq has said that the sit-ins have lost their momentum and politics in the country has been made a business in which the election has been put to auction and seats purchased by the interested quarters.
Addressing a large public meeting at Shikarpur during his Sindh tour, Sirajul Haq said that despite repeated elections, the lot of the common man had not improved. He said that those who were conferred jagirs (big landholdings) by the British colonists for their treachery with the Muslim masses had been in power and they had been taking turns one after the other. He stressed upon the masses to reject this system altogether. The JI chief said that if these politicians remained at the top with mere change of faces, the fate of the country and the nation would not improve, and added that the present oppressive political system did not provide solution to the problems facing the country.
“I have seen Islamabad from close and have noticed that there is every facility for the rich but no room for the poor,” Sirajul Haq remarked. He said that there were only two parties in the country, the first was of the rich and the second was of the poor and the oppressed. He said while the rich never fought with one another, the poor stood divided. The JI chief said he had come out to unite the poor in the country because if they stood united, they would be much stronger than a nuclear bomb. He said that only the Islamic system could guarantee a developing and prosperous Pakistan.
Referring to young PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto’s address in Karachi on Saturday, the JI chief remarked that the PPP had been in power in Sindh for years and even now it was in power in the Sindh, Gilgit and Azad Kashmir then whom against was Bilawal making complain. He said that at the Karachi meeting, Asif Zardari and Bilawal had talked of the oppression on the poor and the deprivations of the Sindh province and every speaker tried to convert the public meeting into Karbla tragedy. Sirajul Haq said that in fact it was the masses who were to be blamed for their present plight as they did not distinguish between the false and the true leaders and blindly voted for the waderas and feudal lords every time.
Addressing the former president, he said, “Zardari sahib, if you are unable to do this, we would have to take our jirga there for the purpose.” He said it is a pity that the poor are being killed and the graveyards are expanding. Sindh chief of JI, Merajul Huda Siddiqui and deputy chief Muhammad Husain Mehnati, also spoke on the occasion.Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk