KARACHI, April 16: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) on Monday alleged that huge public funds were spent and government servants from interior Sindh were brought to the venue of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) rally on Sunday, and claimed that despite this, the rally appeared to be a failure.

In a statement issued here on Monday, MMA legislators Mohammad Hussain Mehnati and Laiq Khan claimed that a majority of the rally participants were government servants brought in at gun point.

They deplored wasting of the government funds in holding rallies instead of solving pressing problems like water supply, sewerage system, better road communication to ensure relief to masses.

The MMA leaders remarked that a party that had once asked its members to sell their household goods to buy arms had now been using its might against the girl students defending the right to follow their belief with only sticks in their hands.

Meanwhile, the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) Sindh chief Asadullah Bhutto said in a statement on Monday that the reception given by lawyers and general public to the ‘suspended’ Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry in Sukkur and Hyderabad was a referendum against President General Pervez Musharraf’s action against judiciary.

The MMA leader asked General Musharraf to step down immediately, and demand formation of a national government to pave the way for transparent elections in the country.

JI LEADER: City chief of Jamaat-i-Islami Dr Mairajul Huda Siddiqui, addressing the Shan-i-Mustafa Conference here on Monday, said that masses would not allow President Pervez Musharraf to introduce the laws in conflict with Islamic teachings on the dictates of White House.