JI want the government to complete its term : Senator Sirajul Haq

Lahore: Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq, has said that the JI wanted the government to complete its term but the ruling parties in the centre and in the provinces had not fulfilled their election promises and the masses were totally disappointed.

He was talking to the media at Rohri railway station on Friday morning before boarding the Awam Express on the last leg of the JI three day Train March against corruption. He also addressed a large number of people present on the spot.

Sirajul Haq said that the JI was trying to reach the masses through Train march and build public opinion against corrupt rulers. He said the movement against corruption would enter a new stage on May 30 when he would hold a Jirga of all the youth organizations in the country  in the federal capital and announce his next plan.

Replying to media questions, Sirajul Haq said the JI wanted that the ToRs for judicial commission should be effective and the Judicial Commission must be autonomous and have powers to investigate and punish the guilty besides banning the corrupt from taking part in politics.

“If Sirajul Haq is guilty of theft, he must be punished”, he remarked. However, he said  that a permanent system should be evolved for the accountability of the parliamentarians and whoever had plundered public money and transferred to foreign accounts, must be brought to accountability.

He urged the masses to realize their friends and foes and reject those who had been plundering pubic money exploiting the poor.

The JI chief demanded that the wages of the workers should also be enhanced in the same proportion as the salaries and perks of the National Assembly members.

Speaking on the occasion, JI Secretary General Liaqat Baloch said that the rulers had weakened the ideological foundations of the country. He said that spies of foreign countries were being arrested in big numbers. He said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had failed to  protect the country’s interests after the announcement of the CPEC. He said a corrupt leadership could not solve the masses problems.

JI Sindh chief Dr Merajul Huda Sidiqi, said that the warm welcome given to the JI Train March and JI chief Sirajul Haq in Sindh despite scorching heat was an indication of the public support to the campaign against corruption. Different railway stations had been decorated with JI banners and colourful buntings.

The Train march was given a rousing welcome  at Khairpur, Gambat, Rani Pur, Pad Eidan, Nawab Shah, Tando Jam and Hyderabad as it headed towards Karachi.