PESHAWAR, Aug 16: The people should elect new faces in the forthcoming elections for the better future of the nation, Maulana Hasan Jan, an ex-MNA, said in his Juma prayer speech here.

The politicians who have looted the public money with both hands and had been running their ancestral politics for decades should be totally rejected, he said.

Instead, chance should be given to people other than the ancestral politicians, so that they rule the nation with fresh ideas and strategies, the Maulana observed while replying to a question posed during the 30-minute question-answer session.

“We should cast votes only to those whose past is crystal clear to us and who have worked for the good of the people and have not been self-servers,” he said

Our nation is mature now, so the people must think before deciding about who they should vote, a decision which could lead to the nation’s progress and prosperity, he added.

Maulana Hasan Jan also urged the government to ban lavish expenditures on election campaign, so that the educated community of the middle class could come forward and contest the polls without being burdened economically.