KARACHI, March 29: Celebrating his party's victory in the local body byelections, founding chief of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Altaf Hussain, said on Monday that the victory was a manifestation of the trust reposed in the MQM by the people.

Speaking to elected representatives and party supporters at Nine-Zero on phone, Mr Hussain congratulated his party supporters for winning almost 75 per cent seats in the province and said that MQM's victory was a serious blow to feudal system.

Mr Hussain said that in the coming elections, this exploitative system would be further demolished. He said that the MQM was striving for liquidating this exploitative system which protects the interests of only two per cent.

Mr Hussain said that the MQM could not be destroyed by the military Establishment and warned feudal lords to rein in their hoodlums. He warned that if they failed to do so, they would face serious consequences.

He made it clear that the MQM was not like PPP or PML, it was an ideological movement which had roots in 98 per cent people. Mr Hussain also dilated on MQM's philosophy to inform the newly-elected councillors and Nazims.

He also sounded a warning to the media for what he called not giving adequate coverage to his party. The MQM chief also accused leading newspapers of ignoring his party.

The MQM chief said that in Punjab where two persons were killed, newspapers painted a rosy picture, but in Karachi and other parts of Sindh, where no one was killed, newspapers painted a horrible picture.

They blew things out of proportions and claimed that polling booths were deserted. If that was the case, from where thousands of votes were polled, he asked.

He gave 15 days to the media to mend its anti-Sindh ways and said if media failed to do so, the MQM would announce its future line of action. Mr Hussain said he would ask the people to snap their TV wires and decline to receive newspapers.

He warned publishers and editors of newspapers that if they failed to correct their publication's attitude, they would face the wrath of the people.