JI is in politics to change existing system: Siraj

F.P. Report

LOWER DIR: Jamaat-i-Islami Chief Siraj-ul-Haq has said that his party is contesting the Feb 8 general elections to change the existing system of injustice in the country. Addressing different party gatherings at Manial, Andheri and Rehanpur in NA 6 as chief guest here on Tuesday, the JI chief alleged that all major political parties were running for their leadership’s interest. The JI chief is contesting election on Na 6 Lower Dir-I.

The JI candidate for PK 14 former MNA Sahibzada Yaqub Khan, PK 18 Saeed Gul, Balambat tehsil chief Imranud Din advocate, village council chairman Shah Hassan and others also spoke while scores of the PTI workers from the Beyari area on the occasion announced to join the JI.

Siraj said that due to wrong policies of previous rulers the country’s external debt had surged to $125 billion by June last year. The JI chief said the leaders of PPP, PML-N and JUI-F wanted to make their relatives ministers. He termed the Feb 8 as the day of accountability and asked the voters to defeat the money launderers and looters with the force of their ballet.

The JI chief announced that they would arrange a national dialogue among political parties soon after the general elections in order to fill the gap among them and end the politics of hatred and disharmony. He said that the country was rich in natural resources, but the incompetent and corrupt rulers had sunk the country’s fleet, increased inflation, unemployment, load shedding and taxes to overburden the masses. He said the JI did not want to promote the culture of nepotism, caste and tribe but wanted to serve the masses irrespective of their political, religious, social and ethnic background.

He said the JI wanted to end the interest-based economy in the country and rid the nation from the slavery of the IMF and World Bank. “We want to provide justice in the courts and to end the co education system in the country and to establish separate educational institutions for women in the country”, Siraj said, adding that it was not impossible but it needed a will. He said that currently 28 million children are out of school.

“The elites have sucked the blood of the poor people to fill their own pockets”, he alleged and added the voters would now defeat those political actors and dual-faced seasonal politicians on Feb 8. About his planning, he said the JI had prepared a plan for 40 years to strengthen the country’s economy and it had presented its manifesto to the nation in that regard.