LARKANA, Sept 26: The chairman of the Sindh National Front (SNF) Mumtaz Ali Bhutto on Wednesday stressed the need for educating people in electing honest and pro-people representatives to stop the country’s slide, brought about by corrupt rulers, towards ‘devastation’.

In a statement to press Mr Bhutto said that desperate as the people were for change would most likely jump from the fry pan into the fire under the charged political atmosphere in the country.

The People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP), religious parties and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), parties which he said had a track record of disservice to people during their rule in the past were again in the race for power, he said.

Today’s worst state of law and order, corruption, unemployment, price hike, poverty and other problems spoke volumes about their performance during their tenures, he said.

He said that Nawaz Sharif’s refusal to surrender to a general did improve his credibility but he, too, opted for staying abroad instead of sitting with his people in times of their trial.

The ‘Jiyalas’ who had had their fill during their heydays were again now looking excited as their leader’s return would again give them a chance to refill their exhausted coffers, he said.

But it was yet to be seen whether people who had braved severe problems had forgotten that ‘Zardari couple’ had been involved in Mir Murtaza Bhutto’s murder and plunder of national exchequer, Mr Bhutto said.

The couple had remained in self imposed exile for ten years to save their skin while history was full of examples of politicians who had left politics after people rejected them, he said.

The politics had become so messy that people were left with no option but to keep supporting the same politicians in the hope of a change for better, he said.