RAWALPINDI, July 18: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) is set to launch people-contact drive for the forthcoming general elections.

An MMA spokesman told Dawn that the conglomerate of six religio-political parties had chalked out the plan to hold country-wide worker conventions for preparing them to convey the message of the alliance.

A worker convention, in this connection, was scheduled to be held here on July 25 at Liaqat Bagh in Rawalpindi. This would be attended by MMA President Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani, Vice-president Qazi Hussain Ahmad and other leaders of alliance, including Maulana Samiul Haq, Maulana Fazlur-Rehman, Maulana Sajjid Mir and Allama Sajjid Ali Naqvi, the spokesman said.

Similar conventions would also be held in Peshawar on July 23, Quetta on July 27 and in Karachi on July 30, he added.

The alliance considers the forthcoming general polls as a contest between the religious and secular parties, and expresses hope to have a sweeping victory over the latter.

Therefore, leaders of Majlis-i-Amal are engaged in devolving the six-parties alliance to the tehsil and union council levels to make it more organised and effective.

Provincial and district-level organisation of the alliance has already been done while tehsil-level organisation will be initiated from July 21.