Half of the objective achieved: Qadri
In an emotional address Qadri urges people to leave homes and start walking towards Islamabad.
ISLAMABAD: Tahirul Qadri, a Pakistani-Canadian cleric told thousands of people Tuesday to carry on their protest in central Islamabad for a second day, after the government ignored his ultimatum to dissolve parliament immediately.
Qadri delivered an emotional address to his supporters, who earlier clashed with police, blaming a corrupt government for all the country s ills and saying that the judiciary and the military were the only functioning institutions.
After the Supreme Court decsion to addrest the prime minisiter in rental power case, Qadri said half of the objective had been achieved.
"I will speak to you again tomorrow. Hopefully after tomorrow there will be no need to stay any longer," he added.
Welcoming the decision of Supreme Court to arrest Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in Rental Power Case said Tahirul Qadri and his followers would continue to sit here until tyranny, injustice, lawlessness and corruption are eliminated from the country.
“We want constitution to be implemented in letter and its spirit. We want reforms in electoral system and change in the system. This is peaceful and constitutional revolution.”
Welcoming the SC decision, which came halfway through his speech, he said his half speech has brought half revolution in the country while Wednesday speech would make it all.
Delighted Tahir-ul-Qadri, asked thousands of people to celebrate the moment as the apex court ordered NAB to arrest Prime Minster Raja Pervez Ashraf in rental power case.
He congratulated the whole nation over Supreme Court decision and asked the gathering to bow before the God and celebrate.
He demanded the protesters to carry on their protest in central Islamabad for a second day, after the government ignored his ultimatum to dissolve parliament immediately.
"I want to ask you to stay until tomorrow. I m going to stay," Tahir-ul Qadri, shouted while addressing the crowd after converging on the heavily fortified capital overnight.
He termed his inaugural speech on the termination of long march as Islamabad Declaration, adding his seven-point national and democratic agenda of electoral reforms.
“Neither I nor the people are emotional, otherwise, they would have captured the corridors of power. People of long march are peaceful, justice-loving, democratic and constitutional in nature,” he said.
“We don’t want anarchy in the country. We want the rulers with fake mandate to become subordinate to the Constitution,” he said.
He said that his proposed ‘Democratic and Electoral Reforms’ has seven points and the last point is the dissolution of assemblies that he will explain towards the end of his speech.
He said that these millions of people have gathered in Islamabad to raise their voices for their rights. The nation is going through tough times and facing poverty and hunger.
The TMQ leader said that they do not want to derail the democracy and the marchers will not avenge the fake government. People want to implement real democracy and that is why they have gathered here today.
He lashed out at the maladministration by the incumbent government narrating the bloodshed in Quetta and the subsequent inaction by the government, adding he cited the ever-deteriorating law and order situation in Karachi as the mis-governance of the present rulers.
