The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) central leadership has not decided about its members resigning from the National Assembly on the coming presidential election, MMA vice president Prof Sajjad Mir said on Tuesday. He said opposition leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman had assured the MMA central leadership that he would ‘not give a safe passage’ to President Pervez Musharraf. He told a delegation of the Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadith of which Mir is the chief senator that Fazl’s recent meetings with the government representatives did not mean that he would give safe passage to Musharraf for his re-election. He said the MMA still had the option of resigning. He said the MMA did not have any internal differences and would not disintegrate. Mir said the MMA would not make electoral adjustments with the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in the coming elections. Instead, it would prefer adjustments with component parties of the All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM), he added.
The MMA had allied with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in the previous general elections and it would again ally with PML-N in the coming elections, he added. He said the presidential election to re-elect Musharraf for the second term would not be possible and Musharraf would have to quit the government. He said ruling party members, except for Chaudhrys, had developed ‘difference’ with Musharraf and would ‘not support’ him in his re-election bid.