LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Sirajul Haq has demanded the government fix the limit of possessing land to eliminate feudalism as India did soon after the partition. Addressing a Kisan convention at Rajowal, about 75-kms from Lahore on Wednesday, Sirajul Haq said millions of people in the country did not have a piece of land to raise a shelter while feudal lords were not aware of the boundaries of their lands. He said JI after coming to power would distribute the vast land of political pharaohs and pundits in Punjab and Sindh among land less tillers. He said the agents of British rulers had got these lands in return for their betrayal of Islam and the nation, therefore, the poor farmers had a right to get these lands. Sirajul Haq advised the rich not to test the patience of the poor too much lest they should compel to march towards their palaces. All those exploiting the masses should realise if they did not mend their ways, the public would be compelled to rise against them, he warned. He said two years performance of the present government had been disappointing as price hike, loadshedding, lawlessness and unemployment had made life of people a hell. “The problems of the ministers and assembly members of the ruling party are being solved while the problems of the masses remain unsolved,” he remarked. JI ameer said Pakistan was an agricultural country and its farmers worked hard day and night, but they did not get any return for their labour. When their crop was ready, the industrialists would lift the produce on extremely low rates and the growers remained high and dry, he said. Sirajul Haq said for the last 68 years, the masses had been feeding serpents who were biting them now. He said the power in the country was in the hands of feudal lords and capitalists who were holding the entire system as hostage. The tiny elite was in control of all the national resources and it was least worried about the problems and difficulties of the common man as its sole interest was in prolonging its rule. These people would show up only when they needed the votes of people, he added. Sirajul Haq reiterated that JI after coming to power would provide subsidy to the growers on seeds, fertiliser, pesticides and farm machinery. Besides, he said, the JI government would provide free treatment to people suffering from diseases of cancer, heart, kidney, hepatitis and thalassemia at government hospitals. The citizens having monthly earnings below Rs 30,000 would be provided basic food items including flour, sugar, tea, rice and cooking oil on subsidised rates. He said JI did not have to take up arms for an Islamic revolution and would achieve the goal through democratic struggle. Punjab JI ameer Dr Syed Waseem Akhtar said there was darkness all around in the country. People were receiving electricity bills regularly without getting electricity, he said and added there was crisis of petrol and gas and 59 per cent youth remained unemployed. The farmers were not getting due attention by the government, he said and added that he had been raising his voice in the Punjab Assembly against injustice to the growers.
