Islamabad
Maulana Shuja ul Mulk, Ameer Jamiat Ulema e Islam said Maulana Fazalur Rehman was trying to run the party on his personal whims and wishes, like a monarch, and the dismissal of senior JUI-F leaders was illegal as no proper process was followed.
The statement from Maulana Shuja, the JUI-F leader from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa came as the rift in the party grew wider, with growing dissenting voices from within the party.
He said Maulana Fazalur Rehman was trying to pit senior Ulema and party leaders against the State institutions, just to cover up his cases with the National Accountability Bureau. “If he is clean, he should present his record before the NAB and everything would be clear,” he said and added that just because of notices by the accountability watchdog, he was asking the party to stage sit-ins.
He was critical of the statement by JUIF Secretary General Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri who said party workers would stage a sit-in at NAB courts, or PM House or elsewhere if Maulana Fazalur Rehman was summoned.
“I would be happy to appear before NAB if I am summoned, as I am clean and have no issue. We are politicians and should not be afraid to come clean,” he added. “If Maulana sahib is clean, he should have no fear in declaring his assets,” he said and added if another sit-in was staged, it would further disappoint the party workers and leaders, as it did, the last time.
Maulana Shuja ul Mulk regretted that the party was now being run like a monarchy, like some other political parties, and said the removal of senior members from the party fold was done without issuing any show-cause notice. He said all expelled leaders were members of the Shura and had been removed, without holding any such meeting.
He said the rift in the party was not new and has been going on for the past 12-13 years, owing to the way the party was being run.— APP
