ISLAMABAD: The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman announce nationwide protest against Election Rigging.
The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazlur Rehman (JUI-F) announced that it will start a movement against alleged rigging during the February 8 general elections, JUI-F leader Aslam Ghauri, in a statement, said that in the initial phase of the movement, meetings at different party levels will be held. According to Ghauri, party chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman will address the meetings.
Address the meetings. “The rigging in these elections has put 2018’s rigging to shame,” said Ghauri and added that a “mockery has been made of the public mandate”. Meanwhile, in an address to party workers in Islamabad on Thursday, JUI-F leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman alleged that the establishment “broke all records of interference” in the February 8 general elections.
“If the establishment interferes and chooses representatives of its own accord, then that won’t be the public mandate,” he said. Previously on February 16, JUI-F Sindh had staged a protest demonstration outside the Provincial Election Commission office in Karachi against the alleged electoral fraud.
JUI-F Sindh Secretary General Allama Rashid Mahmood Soomro addressed the gathering, stating that JUI-F has decided to launch a nationwide movement against “doctored election results.”
He asserted that Sindh has witnessed the worst electoral fraud, with constituency delimitations made to favour the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), and appointments of Returning Officers (ROs) and the District Returning Officers (DROs) influenced by Political forces.
He lampooned the Sindh Election Commission, the bureaucracy and the state institutions, which according to him were helpless against the powerful waderas of Sindh on election day. Maulana Soomro, while addressing the crowd, highlighted that police, Rangers, and army were not deployed at the sensitive constituencies in Sindh.
On February 17 workers from Ghotki and Kashmore blocked roads from Kashmore, and workers from Sukkur blocked roads from Sukkur. The Sindh-Punjab border was also closed for an indefinite period. He demanded that NA-191 Kashmore, PS-02 Panu Aqil, and PS-22 Thul results be released according to Form 45.
