KHAIRPUR, Dec 24: Three-day Urs celebration of sufi poet Faqeer Janan Chun (Sadiq Ali) began in Moondar Lakho village from Sunday. A large number of devotees of the sufi poet from Faiz Gunj and Sobhodero, led by Faqeer Gul Bahar Joyo, left for the Moondar Lakho village on Sunday.

Faqeer Janan Chun was born in 1895 in the Thariri Hajran, Larkana and joined Khilafat Tehik in 1919. He remained an active member of Sindh Hari Committee and took active part in general elections when comrade Hyder Bux Jatoi contested from the platform of Hari Committee.

Before partition, he used to cultivate five acres of land owned by a Hindu, but after partition he was allotted that land. He distributed it among the peasants. During Ayub’s martial law, he was imprisoned at Sukkur central jail, Khairpur, for about ten months during which many of the prisoners became his devotees.

During his life, he struggled for the rights of farmers. He also got sanctioned the Ali Bahar canal near Wagan in taluka Warih for the farmers and in 1957, he got resolved the problem of irrigation water for farmers of Pechar Wah in Dadu. He also got resolved irrigation water problems of the farmers in Ghaarr wah during public meeting of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto when he was foreign minister of Pakistan.

President Ayub Khan also held meeting with Faqeer Janan Chun once whereas Z.A.Bhutto met him for many times. Ayub Khan and Z.A.Bhutto also gave him agricultural land but he distributed it among the peasants. The sufi poet stood shoulder to shoulder with Comrade Jam Saqi who set out on a long march on December 10, 1991 which was the first political long march in the history of Sindh.

In August 1995, he developed kidney problem and was initially admitted to Chandka Medical College but was later referred to civil hospital Karachi where he remained under treatment of renowned urologist, Dr Adeebul Hasan Rizvi. On November 24, 1995 he breathed his last. He was laid to rest in his native village Moondar Lakho.