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PESHAWAR: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl Khyber Pakhtunkhwa emir Maulana Attaur Rehman on Saturday alleged \u201cmassive rigging\u201d in the Feb 8 elections across the province and announced his party would stage street protests against it.<\/p>\n
He said the decision about the schedule of demonstrations would be made in a meeting on Feb 27.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will give our workers a call for anti-rigging protests in the next few days,\u201d he told a presser at his party\u2019s provincial headquarters Mufti Mehmood Markaz here.<\/p>\n
Mr Rehman said the Feb 27 meeting would be attended by members of the party\u2019s provincial general council, heads of districts chapters, mayors as well as provincial assembly candidates.<\/p>\n
\nLeader Rehman says \u2018invisible forces\u2019 stole people\u2019s mandate<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
He said the way \u201cinvisible forces\u201d stole people\u2019s mandate and kept political leadership out of the [coming] assemblies was likely to cost those perpetrators dearly.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019d serious complaints against invisible forces about past elections, too, but this time around, they broke all rigging records. They think that this country belongs to them only, but they are mistaken. This country belongs to the youth and others, who rendered great sacrifices for the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The JUI-F leader said the Feb 8 polls and those who were made to win showed that the May 9 episode of violent protests was a farce.<\/p>\n
Regarding PTI nominee for the chief minister\u2019s office Ali Amin Khan Gandapur, he said he had heard that candidate was \u201cbrought to Peshawar the other day where sat and dined with government officials.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Rehman wondered what message the powers-to-be wanted to give to the people by imposing such people as rulers.<\/p>\n
He claimed that Mr Gandapur was directly involved in the May 9 violent protests and conspiring against state institutions but members of the bureaucracy and key institutions were holding meetings with him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re forced to believe that state institutions played a crucial role in massive election riggings. They are also responsible for propping up such people. Their bids to re-impose them on us as rulers have made that role known to everyone,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The JUI-F leader said his party would call its workers very soon to challenge the \u201cstate thuggery\u201d in a massive show of power.<\/p>\n
He said street protests would let everyone see who the people stood with.<\/p>\n
Mr Rehman said the nomination of the next chief minister by the PTI was the handiwork of state institutions.<\/p>\n
Regarding the JUI-F chief\u2019s meeting with a PTI delegation in Islamabad, he said it was immature to think that his party would shun its stand about former prime minister Imran Khan\u2019s party or embrace its members.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe believe that the PTI did great harm to the province in its 10 years long rule,\u201d he said. Mr Rehman said election rigging would deepen the political crisis in the country. He said countries broke up due to such things.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the state institutions will side with such people to make them win elections, then the people will definitely take to the streets,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The JUI-F leader said the state institutions should have nothing to do with elections and politics.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will contact other parties as well for joining anti-rigging protests,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
To a question whether the JUI-F will join the PTI-led demonstrations, he said his party was going to stage protests by themselves.<\/p>\n
Published in Dawn, February 18th, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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