HYDERABAD: Deputy Convener Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) coordination committee, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui has said that Pakistan could only be saved by a representative and elected government.

He added that MQM’s mandate should be respected because it respects the mandate of other political parties which have emerged victorious in the May 11 polls.

MQM chief Altaf Hussain was to address party workers to congratulate them on their party’s success in Saturday’s elections here on Monday evening.

Party workers had gathered at MQM’s zonal office located on Bhai Khan ki Chari. The MQM chief however did not deliver a speech and it was later announced that he would address party workers on Tuesday.

Thousands of party workers were in celebratory mood over the success of their party in the elections and danced on party songs until Siddiqui addressed them. Siddiqui has won NA-219 Latifabad.

“Certain forces had been hatching conspiracies so that we [MQM} could not contest the elections. But we foiled all these conspiracies,” he said further adding that MQM had been harassed through bomb explosions and other tactics.

He said that even delimitations was done so that it should lose seats. He said that anti-MQM forces couldn’t see the writing on the wall, even before elections, that MQM would win the polls.

He criticised those who were giving their analysis on television channels that rigging is taking place even though polling had not even started.

He stated that ‘things can change’ if MQM’s mandate is not accepted. He did not elaborate on it any further.

“Even our slogans and destination will be changed,” he said. He pointed out that MQM holds the most educated and loyal mandate in the country and even then it is not accepted. He said that no farce in the name of democracy would be accepted.

He said that only his party had awarded tickets Haq Parast Sindhi, Pakhtun, Punjabi and Baloch and had them elected from their own areas which no other party did it. He said that MQM had won more seats now then it had in the 2008 general elections.

Siddiqui said that those who had tried to deny MQM its mandate must remember that MQM is losing its patience.

He said that MQM workers would dismantle all those ‘houses’ which are hatching conspiracies. Siddiqui said that MQM is able to win those seats which were given to a party in Karachi to thrust it as a stakeholder over others.

Siddiqui  said that “it is our presence which signifies the existence of Pakistan and sans us there will no Pakistan. We represent those forefathers who created Pakistan and now we’ll save it,” he said.

He asserted that if only one region or language represents the government then it would be tantamount to fragmentation.

“Only a representative but elected government can save the country. We respected their [parties’] mandate and success and let there be such admission on their part for our mandate,” he remarked.