LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Sirajul Haq has demanded highest budget allocation after defense, for agriculture and farmers welfare.
He called for banning import of potatoes, onions and tomatoes from India and raising the support prices of paddy, cotton and maize in order to ensure fair return to the growers for their labour.
While addressing a mass farmers meeting in connection with Kisan Raj movement at Okara on Thursday, he rejected the kisan Package and said that if the government was sincere to the farming community, it should provide them better facilities.
Sirajul Haq remarked that the princes of Larkana, the industrialists of Lahore, the khwanin of Peshawar and the Sardars of Balochistan had done nothing for the common man. He said that the oppressive capitalists and vaderas had been plundering public wealth for the last seventy years and added that the JI on coming to power, would bring all such people to strict accountability.
The JI chief said that all those responsible for benefitting India to the tune of millions of dollars through trade should be behind the bars.
Sirajul Haq said that if Pakistan was to be made clean and green, the menaces of poverty, ignorance, unemployment, corruption, nepotism and lawlessness must be eliminated.
He said that as long as dacoits and thieves were sitting in the corridors of power, the plight of the poor could not improve. The elite could not realize the problems and hardships of the oppressed and the poor farmers and workers. He said that the status quo must come to an end.
The JI chief deplored that the poor were being forced to sell their kids and kidneys while those sitting in the echelons of power were simply interested in raising their bank balances and the number of their industrial units and palaces.
Sirajul Haq said that he was the son of a farmer and was fighting for the rights of the poor.
He urged the masses to differentiate between their well-wishers and foes and not to be carried away by the slogans of the plunderers again and instead vote for the honest and competent leadership of the JI.
