MARDAN: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Senator Sirajul Haq has said that 2018 is not the year of elections rather it is the year of revolution in the country.

Addressing a public meeting at the bypass ground in Rustam area here on Sunday, he said that religious parties joined hands to form Mutahidda Majlis-i-Amal to make Pakistan a clean, green and free-corruption country.

The JI chief asked people to join hands for bringing Islamic revolution against secularism and other un-Islamic values in the country.

JI chief claims candidates of religious parties to get maximum seats in next polls

He said that they would introduce a uniform system of education with same curriculum in educational institutions from playgroup to 10th grade if people voted them to power in the coming general elections.

“We will also provide shelters to homeless people after coming into power,” he said.

JI provincial emir Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, Mardan district chief Dr Ataur Rehman, Malik Waqar Khan, Mohammad Ibrahim Biland and other party local leaders were also present on the occasion.

Senator Siraj said that it was the duty of religious scholars to lead the people in the right direction. He claimed that cases of assault on minors occurred due to immorality in the society. He said that such cases would occur if vulgar and obscene programme continued to air on TV and radio channels.

The JI chief said that the people, who were involved in spreading of pornography, vulgarity and obscenity in the society, would be behind bars.

“There are some three million youth, who have been getting religious education in around 18,000 seminaries in the country,” he added.

Senator Siraj also claimed that candidates of religious parties would get majority seats in centre and provinces in the 2018 general elections. He said that only religious parties could free the country from the slavery of America and other western powers.

Other JI leaders also addressed the meeting.

Earlier, Sirajul Haq also talked to journalists at the residence of Malik Waqar Khan. He said that they did not believed in politics of weapons as they wanted to bring change through ballot in the country.

He said that their forefathers rendered matchless sacrifices for getting a free Islamic state. He said that law of British rulers was still implemented in the country despite of lapse of 70 years.

“We will implement Islamic law instead of British law in the country if people make us succeed in the coming general elections of 2018 to form government in the centre and provinces,” said the JI chief.

Published in Dawn, January 29th, 2018