Our Correspondent
Faisalabad
Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Senator Sirajul Haq has called for national unity to confront the challenges faced by the country and prayed that may 2021 prove a year of success for the people of Pakistan. He announced that the JI would fully participate in the local government polls. Addressing a press conference here on Friday, Sirajul Haq appealed to the masses to take stand against the status quo parties who did nothing for country during their time in power.
He said, masses tested the PTI, the PML-N, the PPP and military rules and were no more seemed ready to give any other chance to the imperialistic and feudal mindset. The JI chief regretted that 2020 proved very unfortunate for the masses due to confused policies of the PTI government. He said a massive increase was witnessed in poverty rate, hunger, unemployment and inflation. He said around 3.5 million people lost their jobs in past year due to bad economy.
He said the government made the life of people miserable by making massive increase in the prices of electricity and gas on the direction of the IMF. Similarly, he added, the prices of basic commodities remained high during the entire year. Siraj appealed to the people to be part of the JI struggle against the prevailing corrupt system. He announced that JI would fully participate in the local government polls, saying Engineer Azeem Randhawa would be the JI candidate for Mayor Faisalabad seat. Meanwhile, Sirajul called the meeting of the JI Shoora at Mansoora on Saturday.
