FAISALABAD, May 22: Mutahidda Qaumi Movement deputy convener and Standing Committee for Foreign Affairs chairman Farooq Sattar says if the poor masses are not provided with a sigh of relief in the forthcoming budget, his party will review its position in the ruling alliance.

Talking to newsmen at the local press club, the MQM leader said his party enjoyed the ruling share under the umbrella of a president in uniform owing to indifferent attitude of the two so-called major parties of the country.

He said the MQM had taken many bold stands over a number of issues against the wills of the ruling junta and refused to compromise on principles.

He said the PPP and the PML-N had signed a pact under the name of Meesaq-i-Jamhooriat that was nothing but to dodge the people. The two parties struck the agreement for entering the corridor of power via undemocratic means, he claimed.

He said the MQM had started its journey from Karachi to Kashmir which had been completed successfully, and now its term had been enhanced from Kashmir to Kashmor via Lahore and Faisalabad.

He said the public involvement in privatisation, and financial, economic and political policies had become a joke, but the MQM would continue its struggle for the direct participation of the people in these plans.

Later, at a workers convention, Farooq Sattar claimed party chief Altaf Husain was the only exiled leader who had not a single case of corruption against him.