Institutions must remain neutral in next polls: Siraj

Jamaat-e-Islami chief Sirajul Haq on Sunday stressed the need for the institutions including the judiciary, security establishment and Election Commission of Pakistan to remain unbiased for the next general polls to be fair and transparent.

In a statement, the JI chief also ruled out forming any alliance with the PML-N and PPP, blaming the two parties for the country’s current woes.
“We won’t allow the people’s mandate to be robbed in the next elections,” he vowed.

Siraj said his party would contest the next general elections on the manifesto of peace, development and prosperity. He continued that JI would take the message of “real change” to the people.

The JI chief pledged to impose an emergency in education and health sectors if his party came to power in the next polls. He also vowed to rectify the financial affairs of the country and use of funds.

Siraj further said his party would set up rehabilitation training centres for beggars. The JI chief maintained that they would abolish the governor houses and commissioner houses built on eight kanals each.

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“An environment is currently being created for a ladla [blue-eyed] and a super ladla,” he maintained. The JI chief warned that the next government would not function if the same environment was not provided to all political parties for the next polls.

He added that his party would not accept the results if transparent elections were not ensured. Recently while addressing a social media convention organised at Al-Markaz-e-Islami in Peshawar, Siraj claimed that February 8 – the date scheduled for the next general elections – was going to be a “day of salvation” for the nation as “anti-people parties” would fall flat on their faces.

“Dynastic politics is more dangerous than cancer for the nation and the country. Two families ruled [Pakistan] seven times, but instead of progressing, the country went backwards by decades,” he added.

Siraj pointed out that currently, around 110 million people in the country were forced to live below the poverty line. He added that these “incompetent” people were responsible for the country’s uncertain economic and political situation.

The JI chief claimed that the future government in the country would not be formed on the basis of “favouritism”, but only on the votes of the people.
He accused the political parties of these two families, who had a “monopoly in the country”, of spreading corruption in the society.