Landlords, capitalists real rulers: Siraj

CHARSADDA: Urging the people to vote for his party in the upcoming local government elections, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Sirajul Haq Tuesday said that landlords and capitalists were ruling the country for the last 68 years.
Speaking at a public gathering here, Siraj said that the poor labourers were sending their hard-earned money to Pakistan while the thieves and capitalists were sending the money out of the country. He said the country’s currency has lost its value due to three percent corrupt mafia in the country.
He said the educated youth was suffering due to the flawed policies of the rulers. He said that the day was not far away when those who had built palaces with the hard-earned money of the poor would find no place to hide.
Criticising the federal government, Siraj said that the honeymoon period of the government was over and the people wanted a change in the country. He said the capitalist class had divided the poor into small groups to rule them.
The JI chief said that the federal government had no social or welfare project in its pocket to offer to the people. He said the federal government would be blamed if the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project was made disputed.
He said JI would not let the government to change the route of the economic corridor and would offer tough resistance to any such move.He said the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) had no plan to address the issues of power and gas loadshedding, unemployment and other problems being faced by the people.He urged the people to vote for the JI candidates in the upcoming local government election.