JI wants common man’s entry into power corridors: Siraj

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has said his party has been struggling to pave the way for entry of the common man into power corridors and to establish Islamic Shariah.

“It is now upon the voters of NA-120 to support Sadiq and Ameen leadership of JI to play their role in JI’s war for making Pakistan corruption-free and realising the rights of the downtrodden and oppressed classes,” he said while talking to the party candidate for NA-120 by-election Ziauddin Ansari advocate who called on him at Mansoora on Sunday.

JI leaders Hafiz Salman Butt, JI Lahore ameer Zikrullah Mujahid and Chaudhry Mehmoodul Ahad were also present on the occasion.Sirajul Haq said except JI, all other political parties were hostage to elite class. Some were slaves to feudal, others were under capitalists or industrialists, while some others were under the clutches of families, he added. Dozens of JI members remained parliamentarians over many decades but came out clean and with unblemished career, he said.

On the other hand, all the leaderships of mainstream political parties were facing cases of corruption, nepotism, money laundering and dictatorship, he said, adding that they were bent upon defying justice and accountability through use of their wealth and influence.

Earlier, addressing office-bearers of JI central youth board at Mansoora, Senator Sirajul Haq said country was passing through the most critical phase of its history and in order to bolster national defence and solidarity it was the need of the hour that an honest and visionary leadership should be placed in the seat of power which could take courageous decisions by defying external and internal pressures and expediencies.

He said the nation had rejected the naked threats of US President Trump and entire country echoed with ‘down with the US’ slogans the consensus public opinion emerged that Pakistanis could remain without food and luxuries but would never tolerate US slavery and dictatorship. He emphasised that masses had always protested against the US-slave rulers who had been towing Washington’s colonist policies over the last seven decades against the wishes of the people.

Sirajul Haq expressed satisfaction that country’s youth was determined to consolidate the defence of the country and reject the US-slave leaderships in future. He enumerated the problems faced by youths, including unemployment, frustration and poverty which were pushing the talented and educated youths into drugs, crimes and diseases while people were committing mass suicide due to scarcity of basic needs.

He demanded the Supreme Court to subject the entire political leaderships and bureaucracy to across the board accountability and recover the 375 billion dollars of looted public money lying in the foreign banks to rid the masses of pressing problems of poverty, unemployment, energy crisis and price-hike etc.