HYDERABAD, Jan 19: “ Some ruling politicians are trying to hijack the Jeay Sindh movement while some nationalists are interested in a bargain over the Jeay Sindh politics.”

This was alleged by Jeay Sindh Mahaz-J chief Abdul Khaliq Junejo, while speaking at the 99th birth anniversary of the founder of the Jeay Sindh movement, late G.M. Syed, in Qasimabad here the other day.

Criticizing some Sindh ministers, who were present on the occasion of the centenary celebrations of Syed’s birth anniversary at Sann, Dadu, Junejo said that they had no right to come to Sann as they had not supported late nationalist leader during his life.

He said that some nationalist leaders were prepared to betray the ideology of Jeay Sindh and undermine the philosophy of Syed.

Criticizing the supporters of “anti-Sindh elements”, he said that they had no right to raise the slogans of Jeay Sindh.

The JSM-J leader said that some leaders, who were sitting in London and crying hoarse for the rights of Sindh, were only interested in acquisition of ministries and not in the emancipation of Sindh.

He urged the people of Sindh to make a distinction between friends and foes.

He said that Sindh’s resources had been usurped, its rich agricultural lands had been occupied by outsiders and Sindhis had been “enslaved”, adding that even their sovereign rights had been compromised.

Junejo said that lands below the Kotri Barrage had been destroyed because of sea intrusion because no water had been released downstream for the past many years.

Blaming Punjab for destroying Sindh, he said that the people of Sindh would never succumb to the hegemony of Punjab.

Others, who spoke on the occasion, included the president of the Siraiki National Party, Abdul Majeed Kanju, Yousuf Leghari, Jam Saqi, Imdad Kazi, Mir Haider Ali Talpur, Hashim Khoso and Ali Mukhtar Rizvi.