Six factions of the Jeay Sindh are separately going to celebrate the 108th birth anniversary of Ghulam Murtaza Syed on January 17 in Sann, the native village of the late politician in the Jamshoro district.
Syed was the politician who had tabled the resolution on the creation of Pakistan in undivided India.
But after the creation of the country, he was confined for 30 years.
He was born in the village of Sann that used to be a part of Dadu district back then, on January 17, 1904 and died on April 25, 1995.
In 1937, he was elected a member of Sindh Assembly. In 1938, he joined the All-India Muslim League. In 1940, he was appointed the minister of education in Sindh. In 1941, he became one of the members of the Central Committee of the Muslim League.
In 1943, he was appointed the president of the Sindh Muslim League. In 1944, he played a pivotal role in politics and had a resolution passed in the Sindh Assembly in favour of Pakistan – the pioneer resolution of its kind in the whole of undivided India.
In 1946, conditions compelled him to dissociate from the Muslim League and form a new party named the Progressive Muslim League. The same year, he was elected as the leader of the Coalition Party in the Sindh Assembly.
In 1954, he acted as the chairman of the Sindhi Adabi Board. In 1955, he played an active part in the formation of the Pakistan National Party. In 1966, he founded the Bazm-e-Soofia-e Sindh. In 1969, he formed Sindh United Front. Syed is the author of more than 65 books.
In 1971, disappointed with the national politics of Pakistan, Syed found no option but to demand the Right of Self Determination for the people of Sindh.
In 1973 he founded the “Jeay Sindh” movement aimed at establishing an independent Sindhi state “Sindhu Desh”. For his bold expression of opinion and views after the creation of Pakistan, he was kept either in jail or in solitary confinement for more than 30 years.
After his demise, his party the Jeay Sindh was divided into more than six factions. Every year, these factions separately celebrate the birth anniversary of Syed on the same ground around the grave of their leader in Sann.
These factions are: the Jeay Sindh Quami Mahaz (Bashir Qureshi group), the Jeay Sindh Quami Mahaz (Arisar group), the Jeay Sindh Mahaz, the Jeay Sindh Quam Parast Party, the Jeay Sindh Tehreek, the Sindh United Party and the Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz.
