HYDERABAD, Feb 9: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has promised the establishment of universities, hospitals and provision of basic amenities to the people of Sindh if the MQM voted in power.

He was addressing a public meeting held at the Pucca Qilla ground here on Saturday from London on telephone.

He said it was the responsibility of security agencies and the caretaker government to ensure holding of free and fair polls.

His address was also heard at a public meeting in Nawabshah simultaneously.

Mr Altaf Hussain said that the MQM was the only party that started work at the grassroots level and it had been working for ensuring rights of downtrodden people.

He vowed to continue their struggle until the uprooting of the obsolete political system which, he said, was based on feudalism, capitalism and corruption.

“It is only the MQM where candidates are elected democratically as MQM doesn’t believe in politics of inheritance and had it been believer of this concept then only my family members would have been elected in both houses of parliament,” he said.

He said it was the MQM which brought forward a middle class leadership.

He promised a network of roads and hospitals in interior of Sindh as well as provision of electricity, gas and water supply if the MQM’s candidates were elected to power. He said that MQM would build parks and playgrounds.

He said that MQM’s parliamentarians would not be allowed any commission in funds allocated to them by government.

He said custom of karo-kari would be eliminated once and for all and looted money would be recovered.