Masses won’t accept ‘selection’ in polls: Siraj

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Sirajul Haq said the masses would not accept any “selection” in the forthcoming elections. Senate elections had been the worst polls in country’s history, he said while addressing a meeting of party leaders and workers atMansoora Monday. He said in the past, there were rare cases of horse-trading but now there was uproar all over the country on the Senate elections and the heads of some political parties had issued show cause notices to their assembly members.

He urged the Supreme Court chief justice to take suo motu notice of the matter for safeguarding the dignity of the upper house and democracy. He said this would be a great favour of the chief justice to the nation. He urged the ousted premier Nawaz Sharif to pick up courage and speak the whole truth about horse-trading in Senate elections instead of endorsing half of his (Siraj’s) statement on the issue.

He said some people were objecting to the chief justice visits to hospitals, educational institutions and federal and provincial departments. He said if the federal and the provincial governments had delivered, there would not have been public complaints against them and the CJ would not have taken this course. He said he would request the chief justice to clean country’s politics from corruption as this alone would ensure provision of pure milk, air and water to the masses.  

He said those who sold their votes in the Senate election must be taken to task so that the general elections could be free from corruption. He said in spite of uncertain conditions, elections must be held on time and all political parties should unite on the one-point agenda of timely election. He said political parties coming in power like musical chairs had gifted poverty, price hike, unemployment and lawlessness to the masses. He urged the people to reject the self seeking politicians and vote for the MMA in the next elections. He said the MMA wants supremacy of the Constitution and the rule of the parliament instead of rule of individuals.