The poor could only watch the game of politics but not participate therein:Senator Sirajul Haq

Lahore: Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq, has said that the country’s politics and democracy were protecting the interests of the elite as politics was simply a tool to make money.

He said that the poor could only watch the game of politics but not participate therein as the sole objective was to squeeze the majority and benefit a few elite families. The JI chief was addressing the JI’s central office bearers.

Sirajul Haq said that the only job for the masses was to pay bills and taxes. The tax payers were being forced to commit suicides while the elite were living in luxuries.  He said that the pro= status quo forces wanted to keep the masses as slaves and the common man could not get any opportunity to progress.

He said that as and when any member of the elite class was hauled up for mega corruption, the democratic set up seemed to be in danger. He said the situation demanded that general public broke the hold of the corrupt elite and support the  JI for an Islamic system in the country.

Sirajul Haq said that the constitution did not permit any discrimination between the rich and the poor. He said that the JI’s struggle would continue till the common man got rights equal to the feudal lords, vaderas and capitalists.

Later, while talking to the Kisan Board president Sadiq Khakwani, the JI chief said that the Kisans were the biggest family in the country. He said the JI would set up special Kisan committees at village, goth and town levels.  He said the JI would continue its efforts to create an awakening among the poor and the kisans. He said the Kisans and workers were  the benefactors of the nation as they toiled hard day and night to feed the nation.

He said that the government had destroyed agriculture and industry, two pillars of the national economy. He said the Kisans and workers were in protest but the rulers remained unconcerned.