Jamaat-e-Islami would contest local body & general elections on its own electoral symbol ‘Scales’: Liaqat Baloch

LAHORE, Nov 20 (SABAH): Deputy Chief of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, President of  Standing Committee on  political, electoral, national affairs Liaqat Baloch, while addressing the meetings of political workers conventions and candidates for national and provincial assemblies in Dera Ghazi Khan, Muzaffargarh, Multan, said that the people have been disappointed by PTI after PPP and Muslim League. The people were deceived for the third time. The country is facing major crises but the national leadership is at loggerheads. Prime Minister Imran Khan is responsible for the political and parliamentary crisis, who is being blackmailed by the coalition parties but is not ready for dialogue with anyone for national priorities and national policy on the national front.

Liaqat Baloch said that the government, which is going through a lot of turmoil and crisis, if allowed to complete its tenure, it will be an irreparable loss for the country and nation. Imran Khan’s government is incompetent and failed. The prospects for improvement in the next year are slim. The constitutional solution is to implement an empowered local government system, establish a national consensus on electoral reforms and approach the people for a new mandate.

Talking to media persons, Liaqat Baloch said that Jamaat-e-Islami would contest the local body and general elections on its own electoral symbol “Scales”. Coalition politics has failed and there is no way out of the crisis. The policy-making body of Jamaat-e-Islami, the Central Council, have decided on the policy strategy. The Central Parliamentary Board is approving the candidates. A nationwide public contact campaign is being launched across the country on the basis of our slogan “Islamic Pakistan, Prosperous Pakistan”. Workers will go door-to-door and persuade the people to support Jamaat-e-Islami, Jamaat-e-Islami will save the country from crises.

Liaqat Baloch said that parliamentary legislation is shameful and adds another ugly stain to the democratic parliamentary forehead. Malicious and flawed legislation is always embraced by the government. Electronic voting machine is not the only electoral reform, the real challenge is to set free the elections from the siege of the Establishment, putting an end to elections as a game of money, to stop use of stolen money for winning elections, to restore public confidence in the elections, end of political leadership and democratic forces’ compromise with the Establishment to come in power and to end the lust for power.

Liaqat Baloch said that after the grand student rights convention in Islamabad on November 17, the protest rally of youth across the country on November 28 would also be historic. The whole nation will be on the streets against the government.