Following his release from Multan’s central prison on Thursday, former parliamentarian Jamshed Dasti lashed out at former premier Yousaf Raza Gilani accusing him of ignoring poor representatives of the party and catering to the feudal elite in the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) only.
“The biggest challenge for Pakistan’s poor people and their representatives is democracy controlled by feudal lords that are present in every political party of Pakistan,” Dasti said talking to media personnel after the Multan bench of Lahore High Court (LHC) issued his release orders.
More than 40,000 people from southern Punjab, especially from Muzaffargarh, had received him in the form of small groups. He addressed more than 20 public places on his way to his hometown.
He heaped praise on Pakistan’s independent judiciary but at the same time vowed that martial law is never acceptable whether it is in the form of military or the judiciary.
Dasti announced he would contest from both NA-178 and NA-177 constituencies against the joint coalition of all feudal lords in the region as he had done in the past.
He said he would contest as an independent candidate and would make a new history not only in Muzaffargarh but all over Pakistan.
Dasti said Gilani was “an insult” because he had lived with the people of his region and would in all probability “also die with them” but had hardly ever enquired about a poor man’s income.
After the court declared him ineligible, Gilani approached feudal lords and welcomed them to contest polls despite their conspiracies against the PPP, said Dasti.
“Feudal lords have not left the PPP, a party of the poor. The party is no more a representation of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto’s ideology,” claimed Dasti.
