ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: In the presence of emergency and PCO, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP) has decided to boycott the next year January 8 polls and none of the party ticket holders of the National and Provincial Assemblies including its Chairman would deposit their nomination papers before the Returning Officer (RO).
This was stated in a policy statement by the Central Chairman of CPP, Engineer Jameel Ahmad Malik here today.
He vehemently stressed that the forthcoming elections are the big fraud and free and fair election is a mere slogan. The political workers, lawyers, journalists and members of civil society are being arrested every day. The judiciary is not independent and 55 judges had unlawfully been dismissed. The judges have taken oath on PCO.
The CPP Chairman vehemently said that in such a political scenario, where there are no chances of free and fair elections, they had no alternative except to boycott the elections and mobilize the downtrodden and poor masses of the country for launching an armed struggle against the Government for a socialist revolution in
Engineer Jameel cited his own example and said he contested elections against the ex-premier Shaukat Aziz and Federal Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan and the Court has taken more than five years and not yet decided that whether the diploma and degree submitted by Ghulam Sarwar Khan before the RO of NA-53 is a fake or a genuine one.
And about Shaukat Aziz, specific charge of his being an American citizen and he used all the Government sources and rigged the election of NA-59 by all corrupt and illegal means were made, yet the matter is still pending in the court since December 2, 2004.
Engineer Jameel said, the EC is a puppet, totally partial and is a party to every corrupt and illegal practice of the pro-government candidates in the elections. Being a candidate of National Assembly twice, he is well aware that the pro-government candidates are free to violate every law made by the EC but the RO and EC don't take any actions against the pro-government candidates, who indulged in the rigging of polls.
CPP said that the pro-Government Zila and Tehsil Nazims are also free to use and mobilize all the government funds and sources in favour of pro-establishment candidates and there is no check of EC on these nazims.
In reality, the Zila and Tehsil Nazims in corroboration with the ROs and EC are free to rig the polls of pro-government candidates and even the Election Tribunals, which are meant to settle such disputes, are helpless before the top and military hierarchy led by General Musharraf and his allies.
The CPP had demanded an impartial neutral interim governments, sending troops from Baluchistan and NWFP back to the barracks, graduation conditions for the candidates be abolished, no amendments should be made in 1973 constitution, an independent EC and election commissioner be nominated in consultation with all the political parties.
He said the CPP would boycott the elections in the absence of a neutral Election Commission (EC) and the government's refusal to form neutral interim governments before the polls.
The CPP said the Political Parties Order 2002 be repealed since registration of political parties was against the fundamental rights enshrined in the 1973 Constitution.
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