Karachi: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) has said that the Karachi mayor is not being chosen from the people’s mandate but by political bargaining. Speaking at a press conference alongside other party leaders in Hyderabad on Sunday, Convener Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui said that the way recent local government (LG) elections were conducted, “no example could be found of such polls in history”, adding that the MQM-P had defeated the conspiracy of electoral fraud by withdrawing from the LG elections.
“The feudal system is threatened by our struggle and we refuse to recognise it. The MQM-P has decided to struggle for people’s rights and for that it has chosen the path of demonstrations.”
Dr Siddiqui further said that through the pre-poll rigging, attempts were made to prove the port city is someone else’s stronghold and “we had also filed petitions regarding the electoral tampering in Sukkur and Mirpur”.
He went on to say that in the urban dwellings, “the conspiracy is hatched to show the number of people less by census and they tried to present the transformed demography of Karachi, Hyderabad and Sukkur in the census”.
