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RAWALPINDI: Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) Secretary General and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said on Wednesday that he hoped the alliance would not dissolve, adding, “Those who boycott the general elections will not remain a part of the MMA.”
Addressing party workers at the inauguration of the election campaign for JUI-F candidates in Punjab, he said he would try his best to keep the MMA united, as the dissolution of the alliance would tarnish its agenda and standing. He said the MMA had not taken any decision on polls boycott, adding that the JUI-F would contest elections from the MMA platform if other parties boycotted. “The polls’ boycott is every party’s own decision but such parties will no longer be a part of MMA,” Daily Times Monitor quoted him as saying.
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No need for boycott: The JUI-F chief said there was no need to boycott elections as the opposition was demanding the restoration of the judiciary, and the government had already announced the election schedule and a date to lift the state of emergency. He said the MMA would not accept the All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM)Â’s decision to boycott elections, as the alliance had its own agenda and faith.
He criticised Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad for creating problems in MMA affairs and called for efforts to remove inter-party conflicts.
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Separately, talking to French Ambassador to Pakistan Regis de Belenet, Maulana Fazlur Rehman said that if boycott was the only option left for the polls, then all the parties must unanimously agree to it.
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