Govt dropped bombshell of mini-budget on poor masses on eve of New Year: Sirajul Haq

LAHORE, Dec 31 (SABAH): Jamaat-e-Islami Emir Sirajul Haq has said the government dropped the bombshell of mini-budget on the poor masses on the eve of new year.

Talking to party workers at Mansoora on Friday, he said the PTI failed to provide any relief to the poverty-ridden masses in 2021 and it burdened them with another Rs343 billion on the first day of the 2022.

He also criticized the role of the so-called opposition parties during the tabling of supplementary budget in the national assembly, saying the opposition staged the walkout only to facilitate the government.

In-fact, he added, there was no differences in the policies of the PTI, the PML-N and the PPP. They (ruling and two opposition parties) were working on the same agenda and were ready to accept every direction of the US and international lending agencies. They fought for self-interest and befooled the people, he added.

Sirajul Haq said the finance minister statement that mini-budget would not bring any disaster was joke and insult to the poor masses who could not afford two times meals due to skyrocketing inflation and unemployment. He said the poor could not afford medicine as their prices gone beyond the reach of common man. The DAP bag was being sold at rate of Rs9000 per bag, he regretted.

The JI chief said the people must take a stand against ruling elite which deprived the common man even from the basic facilities. He said only a system based on the teaching of Quran and Sunnah was the solution to the country’s problems. He said the people should reject the tested elite, feudal lords in the coming election and vote for the JI to put the country on track.

Sirajul Haq also highlighted the need of unity among the ranks of Ummah, saying the Muslim world should join hand against the human rights violation and cruelties on the Muslim population and particularly Kashmir and Palestine.