Amid the uncertainty as to who will become the prime minister, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Sirajul Haq has said that the government should be given to the one who has been given the mandate by the people.

“In the world, first elections are held and then the government is formed, but Pakistan is the only country where the government is formed first and then the elections are held,” Siraj said while holding a news conference on Sunday.

“After the elections, there is a peaceful atmosphere, but this is the only country where there is an increase in chaos after the elections,” he said, adding that in 1971, the country broke up due to non-recognition of the mandate, in 1977 martial law was imposed.

Siraj said that the result of the elections led to increased polarisation as the people decided one thing but the results were different.

The JI chief claimed that a government imposed by force would not last, as the 2024 election was the most polluted and infamous one because the census itself was incorrect.

On the resignation of Rawalpindi Commissioner Liaquat Ali Chatha after admission of tampering with the electoral outcome by turning the tables and flipping losers into winners, Siraj said the commissioner removed the burden of his conscience, similarly, “if everyone’s conscience wakes up, where will the fraudsters hide”?

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Siraj said that the government does not run with fake election and fake results. “There is distance between the people and the establishment because there is no trust in the decisions of the establishment over the elections.”

He claimed that great injustice had been done with his party which the common people were admitting, saying that seats were snatched in Karachi.

“The fourth place winners have been awarded in Karachi. Fifty billion rupees have been spent on the election, if it was to be rigged, why did they spend the money?”

Instead of elections, he said, they would have given their share to the people.

As a result of the election, the JI chief said, five years were lost. “Democracy was swept away in the election of February 8,” Siraj said, demanding that the one who was given the mandate by the people should get the government.