PESHAWAR
Amun Taraqqi Party (ATP) chairman Muhammad Faiq Shah stressed that a consensus candidate for the position of caretaker prime minister is crucial to avoid raising questions on fair and transparent elections.
The ATP chairman said deadlock on finalizing the name of interim prime minister should be removed immediately and to initiate measures for holding timely elections and address issues of inflation-stricken people on priority grounds.
Shah in a statement here on Friday said the situation is going from bad to worse with each passing. He said the political polarization has brought stagnation everywhere.
Faiq said democracy values and culture were crushed down under feet.
He said laws only passed for personal interests and politics but never made legislation for welfare and better for the poor masses.
The party leader noticed people have compelled on suicide and starvation owing the rising price-hike.
He added earning livelihoods for poor families has not only made it difficult but impossible.
Shah said the right to live was snatched from people.
He maintained conspicuous silence of governments and local administrations further added to miseries of poor masses.
The ATP chairman said this 16-month long assembly would be remembered as ‘anti-democracy and anti-people’.
By making the assembly a bill-producing factory, he said the recently past NA/rulers had passed 121 bills in a day. They put ‘innocent workers’ behind the bars, increased the prices of electricity and flour as well.
He said the rulers had come to power to lift people out of poverty but they did otherwise and made people’s lives miserable.
In the last week, he said the rulers not only exploited the law but also put their political opponents in jail.
