Mammoth gathering at the anniversary categorically stated that no dam on the Indus River will be allowed to build
Jungshahi, Sindh
The mammoth gathering on June 7, 2023 at the fifth death anniversary of Rasool Bux Palijo, a veteran politician, at his native village near Jungshahi town of district Thatta, rejected the results of recently conducted Digital Census.
The gathering passed the resolutions rejecting the digital census results and demanded deporting all the illegal foreigners including millions of Afghans.
Another resolution categorically stated that no dam on the Indus River will be allowed to build.
Thousands of workers including women activists of Awami Tehreek and Qaumi Awami Tahreek visited the last resting place of their leader Rasool Bux Palijo and laid floral wreaths over his grave.
Rasool Bux Palijo was the Marxist leader, scholar, and human rights defender, author of over forty books, lawyer and founder of Awami Tehreek.
Leaders of various political organizations addressed the public meeting and paid homage to late leader.
President, Awami Tehreek, Lal Jarwar and others addressing the gathering said that Rasool Bux Palijo was the continuation of the great revolutionary genius of the world.
They said that under the leadership of Late Rasool Bux Palijo the brave women of Sindh fought against oppression, barbarism and martial-Laws from the platform of the Sindhyani Tahareek and courted arrests.
“Palijo brought the scientific knowledge of the revolutionary leaders to the villages in a simple and easy language. He was the wise leader of Sindh and Pakistan who spent his whole life fighting for the oppressed classes and nations of the world,” they said.
“Rasool Bux Palijo’s thoughts were a light for third world countries”, they said.
They said that the only solution to the economic and political crisis that Pakistan is facing today is to follow Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s secular principles and the 1940 resolution, and with this the country can move towards prosperity.
They said that the people of Sindh have rejected the digital census from the first day. “This census is completely aimed to turn Sindhi nation in to minority and is against the existence of Sindh.”
“The people of Sindh, Balochistan, Kashmir, Gilgit and Siraiki have rejected the digital census as an attack on national integrity, therefore, the results of this population census have no constitutional and legal status.”
They said that jobs in federal institutions should be given to all nationalities on an equal basis as the Senate seats are equal for all nations, instead of establishing a monopoly of one province.
They said that the Sindh High Court has imposed a ban on Jirgas and declared Jirgas as an insult to the country’s constitution, but the Sindh government is reluctant to follow the orders of the Sindh High Court. The Sindh Apex Committee has attacked the judiciary by empowering the Jirgai system and the tribal chiefs to settle tribal disputes.
The country has become isolated in the world due to the corruption and worst policies of the rulers, the lamented.
The leaders said that Pakistan’s foreign policy has never been made keeping in mind the welfare of the People of country.
The leaders also criticized People’s Party saying that it has sold all the resources of Sindh to the federal government for the sake of power. “The current famine, unemployment, unrest and lawlessness have left Sindh at the mercy of the bandits and feudal lords who have established their own state within the state.”
“At present, life has become hell for women due to the incompetence of the Sindh government, as the women of Sindh have been left at the mercy of the tribal people,” they said.
Khushal Khan Kakar, the son of Shaheed Usman Kakar and the central president of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party said that Rasool Bux Palijo dedicated his whole life for democracy, constitution and the oppressed class. He said that now no one can occupy the land of Sindh.
Central General Secretary of Awami Workers Party Bakhshal Thalho spoke about the problems of Sindh like poverty, unemployment and other problems.
Lal Shah, Central President of Awami Jamhuri Party and intellectual Jami Chandio said that Palijo was a unique and versatile person, a writer, a scholar and a great person. Palijo was primarily a thinker and a great politician.
Alia Bakhshal, the Central Secretary of the Women’s Jamhori Mahaz, said that at this time, there is a need for a joint struggle.
Many other Leaders of different parties also addressed the event and urged that feudalism should be abolished by bringing agricultural reforms in the country, and the lands of Sindh should be distributed among the landless farmers.
They said that soon after the creation of Pakistan, the real power was taken over by the military generals employed by the British, civil bureaucracy and the feudal lords, tribal chiefs, Khans and Nawabs supported by the British imperialism.
They said that there are no labor laws of any kind in Pakistan. The workers have no rights, the higher educational institutions of Sindh have been made the center of corruption.
They said that the universities of Sindh have been made killing places for girls. They said that incidents of child abuse are increasing day by day in Sindh but the government of Sindh has become a silent spectator.
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