LAHORE: Unfolding his “People's Agenda” at Jamaat-i-Islami's (JI) convention, JI Emir Sirajul Haq said on Friday that a government led by his party would retrieve the lands granted by the British to their cronies and distribute it among the masses.

Addressing the gathering at Pakistan monument, he said the JI, if came into power, would give unemployment allowance to the jobless youth, introduce a uniform system of free education up to Matriculation level, abolish the interest based banking system and grant full protection to the minorities.

Haq said that JI alone could demolish the “idol of corruption, abolish VIP culture and introduce a strong system of accountability”.

The JI chief, who had been finance minster in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa twice, presented himself for accountability. He said the JI government would ensure workers share in the profits of industries and the share of farmers in the produce of land, grant old age social allowance to senior citizens.

All those earning below Rs30,000 per month would be provided flour, sugar, tea, pulses and rice on subsidised rates.

He said the national language would be made the medium of education. The Islamic government would provide free treatment to patients of heart diseases, hepatitis, cancer and kidney.

Haq said that prayer leaders and callers of the mosques all over the country would be provided salaries from the public exchequer, and urged them to utilise their services for unity of the nation.

He demanded that the electoral system be completely overhauled before the next polls, adding that a system of proportionate representation be introduced in the country.

Condemning the murder of a Christian couple at Kot Radha Kishan in Punjab, he said such incidents could not take place in ‘true Islamic system’.

JI Secretary General Liaqat Baloch and JI Lahore chief Mian Maqsood Ahmed also addressed the gathering. Special programmes of women and youth were also held on the opening day of the three-day convention.