Ghulam Mursalin Marwat
LAKKI MARWAT: Local leaders of JUI-F have announced that they had not forged an alliance with Saifullah brothers on one national and three provincial assembly seats for coming general elections and that the decision regarding electoral any political party or group at local level alliance would be made after formulation of organizational structure of Mutahidda Majlis-e-Amal (MMA).
Talking to journalists after district shura meeting here at party’s office in Lakki city, district general secretary Maulana Samiullah Mujahid and others did not rule out the possibility of alliance with influential Saifullahs and said that there was the dire need for confidence building measures between both sides before forging into an electoral alliance.
He said that poll alliance at local level was not on agenda of meeting nor the participants discussed the matter.
Flanked by JUI-F district Ameer Maulana Abdul Rahim and Naurang tehsil nazim Maulana Ezazullah, he said that JUI-F would repeat the history of 2002 and would clean sweep next general elections on all seats in the district. “The religious parties’ alliance (MMA) will form the next government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa”, he maintained, adding that PTI rulers cannot purchase the loyalties of clerics by tempting them with payment of honorarium.
Maulana Mujahid opposed the payment of honorarium to Ulema and strongly criticized the local authorities concerned for collecting the data of clerics for honorarium without their consent.
The JUI-F leadership has already rejected the honorarium announced by provincial government therefore local authorities concerned should refrain from pressurising clerics for provision of their credentials or filling relevant forms”, he added.
He warned that JUI-F activists would launch protest if disrespect to clerics and prayer leaders was not stopped immediately. He also said that the religious party had the right to claim the credit of approving university in Lakki Marwat. “The former Prime Minister Sharif who visited Bannu district last year on invitation of JUI-F chief Maulana Fazalur Rehman had announced setting up a varsity in the district”, he claimed and accused the provincial government for delaying release of funds for purchase of land for university.
