Jamaat-e-Islami kicks off countrywide membership drive

Lahore: Launching the membership drive of the Jamaat e Islami at Gujranwala on Friday, the JI Ameer, Senator Sirajul Haq told the people that their power of vote was like a nuclear bomb that should be used against the corrupt politicians who were responsible for the miseries of the common man.

“ When the people know that the feudal lords, vaderas and capitalists ruling the country were tyrants and oppressors, why do they bring them to power through their vote” he asked, at a press conference at Gondalanwala chowk, Gujranwala.

Sirajul Haq said that he would gather the poor living in huts, at footpaths, and build them as a big force against the oppressors ruling the country.

He said that the ruling elite, whether they are from the Punjab, Sindh, Khyber P. or Balochistan, were the same class and had darkened the future of the nation, burdened very citizen under heavy debts obtained from the IMF or the World Bank, and built their bank balances abroad. The sons of the poor were compelled to work in workshops, hotels and as vendors on footpaths while the children of the rulers studied at most expensive schools and colleges, he added.

Sirajul Haq noted that India had abolished Jagirs soon after partition which resulted in an increase in their farm produce. On the other hand, the feudal lords in the country wedded their daughters with the Holy Quran only to preserve their Jagirs. He said that the JI on coming to power, would confiscate all Jagirs and distribute the lands among Haris and landless tillers.

The JI chief also noted that many political parties did not have democracy within their own ranks and revolved around some families, and asked what right these people had to talk of democracy.

To a question about the Gulf situation, the JI chief said that any conflict within the Muslim world would only benefit the enemy. He said that Pakistan should try to extinguish the flames of fire, and Pakistan and Turkey should play the role of mediators between Saudi Arab and Yemen. However, he said, that an attack on Saudi Arabia would be an attack on this country as every Muslims would deem it an honour to lay down his life for the protection of the Haramain Sharifain.