People nursed by dictatorship could not deliver democracy :Senator Sirajul Haq

Lahore: Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq, has said that the people nursed by dictatorship could not deliver democracy.

Talking to a delegation of the JUI (F) Sindh at Mansoora, he said that most of the faces in so called political parties were the same as were seen around the dictators during martial law.

Sirajul Haq said that the present electoral system was the continuation of the status quo and the masses could not expect any good from it. The polling stations were captured on the basis of wealth. He said the masses had never got an opportunity to exercise their vote freely nor were the real representatives of the masses allowed to reach the assemblies. He said electoral corruption had been going on since 1970 when the election results were altered and the country was split apart.

He said that the same elite had been ruling the masses and after coming into power, these people freely indulged in financial corruption. He who returned to assembly by spending one billion, would plunder many times more from the public exchequer, and as a result, the general public would suffer. He said that due to these factors, the people were losing faith in the electoral system. He said that democracy did not mean plundering the public money with impunity.

The JI chief said that the present government had only a little time to carry out electoral reforms but it was adopting delaying tactics, and it seemed the government had no intention to go for electoral reforms.

Sirajul Haq stressed upon the democracy loving masses to wage a joint struggle against electoral corruption so that their coming generations could be free from the clutches of the ruling elite.

He urged the masses to join the JI’s Corruption Free Pakistan campaign in order to free the country from all forms of bondages.