RAWALPINDI, Jan 30: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain on Wednesday announced that his party would soon hold a big public meeting in Punjab.

In a telephonic address to his party’s workers and supporters in Rawalpindi, he alleged that whenever the MQM announced its intention of holding a big meeting in Punjab there was a sudden increase in acts of violence in Karachi.

However, he asked his party’s leaders and workers to get ready for making inroads into Punjab and for transforming the country by bringing to an end hereditary politics and feudalism.

The MQM chief said he could be forced to remain in exile forever. But he exhorted his party’s workers to carry on the struggle and bring about ‘a resolution through the ballot box’.

He urged his supporters in Punjab to convey to their brethren in the province that a negative image of his party was being portrayed.

“The trend of hereditary politics will no longer continue as the roots of Pakistan’s problems were in corruption among politicians, politics of inheritance and the feudal system,” Mr Hussain said.

The MQM chief said that his party would stun its opponents by arranging the ‘biggest’ political gathering in Punjab.

He also felicitated his party’s candidates on being elected unopposed to four Sindh Assembly seats. This, he said, was a message to the people that MQM was the only option if they wanted progress and prosperity in the country.