Scores of working-class residents and representatives of katchi abadis from across the twin cities gathered in the rural locale of Alipur on Saturday to declare their support to Awami Workers Party (AWP) candidate Iqbal Jahan who is contesting from NA-47 (Islamabad II).

The announcement was made on the basis of AWP’s long history of being the only political party in the federal capital which had consistently opposed evictions of katchi abadis and struggled for basic amenities in working-class neighbourhoods in the face of the anti-poor, elite-centric and ecologically destructive policies propagated by the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and mainstream bourgeois politicians.

AWP leader Dr Aasim Sajjad said working-class residents of the federal capital were regularly subjected to demolitions of their homes and livelihoods in the name of clearing ‘encroachments’.

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