Part 2: MQM Quaid Altaf Hussain Address to Public Gathering on 2nd December 2012
- 12 years ago
“The Delimitation Act of 1974 makes census as the basic requirement for new delimitations. The Supreme Court has ordered for carrying out new delimitations of constituencies in Karachi alone without holding census which is totally against Section 9 of the Delimitation Act of 1974.”
“The Delimitation Act does not speak about monopoly of any political party. The word monopoly is not present in any clause of the act. How far is it justified to term the popular support and mandate of any political party as monopoly?”
“No court has the right to direct the Election Commission to change electoral constituencies in way that no party has a monopoly. It is the inalienable right of the people to give their mandate to the party of their choice. No one can deprive people of their basic right.”
“Will the judges decide as to which party has majority in a particular constituency. Different political parties have majority support in different cities of the country. If the observation of the Supreme Court is valid in the case of Karachi, why such observation was not made for the rest of the country?”
“The remarks about new delimitations in Karachi point to a conspiracy to break the popular mandate of the MQM. The people of Karachi reject the highly prejudicial remarks.”
Referring to the judgment of the Lahore High Court on Kala Bagh Dam, Mr Hussain asked if the courts would decide about the construction of dams. “The people of Sindh have rejected Kala Bagh Dam and hence the LHC must take back its order.”
“The Delimitation Act does not speak about monopoly of any political party. The word monopoly is not present in any clause of the act. How far is it justified to term the popular support and mandate of any political party as monopoly?”
“No court has the right to direct the Election Commission to change electoral constituencies in way that no party has a monopoly. It is the inalienable right of the people to give their mandate to the party of their choice. No one can deprive people of their basic right.”
“Will the judges decide as to which party has majority in a particular constituency. Different political parties have majority support in different cities of the country. If the observation of the Supreme Court is valid in the case of Karachi, why such observation was not made for the rest of the country?”
“The remarks about new delimitations in Karachi point to a conspiracy to break the popular mandate of the MQM. The people of Karachi reject the highly prejudicial remarks.”
Referring to the judgment of the Lahore High Court on Kala Bagh Dam, Mr Hussain asked if the courts would decide about the construction of dams. “The people of Sindh have rejected Kala Bagh Dam and hence the LHC must take back its order.”