If somebody indulges in getting bribes, and tries to represent the people he will never frame a law to punish corrupt officials. The one who himself is corrupt, can never have a good advice for others. The persons, who drink or indulge in black-marketing and exploit the people, are destroying the country.
The people who have connection with foreign countries, and even with enemylike countries, they can never do anything for the welfare, prosperity, and progress of Pakistan. That’s why it should have been arranged that black marketers, drunkards, and those who do not love Pakistan, or spy for other countries, should not be allowed to become people's representatives.
It is regrettable that it has become a custom in my country that those who come in power do not properly represent their people.
Since the creation of Pakistan, no honest, poor Pakistani could get a chance to become a representative. The reason is quite clear that the Government have imposed a restriction that anyone desirous to fight elections must deposit a sum of rupees one thousand as security. The peasants who constitute 85 per cent of population do not have rice or flour and how they can deposit a security of rupees one thousand. Therefore, they remain completely deprived.
The workers who constitute 10 per cent of the population also live a miserable life and the wages they get are the lowest in the world.
Condition of peasants and laborers in both wings of the country is similar, and both lack ever-basic facilities here including food, education.
Ninety-five percent of the population is illiterate; they cannot write even their names. Therefore, I had demanded that on population basis 95 per cent seats in the Assemblies should be reserved for peasants and laborers. A peasant or a laborer cannot contest elections against jagirdars, industrialists and corrupt retired Government officials. Therefore, in the prevailing circumstances he can never have an access to the Assemblies. They can neither have a hand in the affairs of constitution-making nor in Jaw-making.
In West Pakistan jagirdars own land and cultivators have nothing. If a cultivator dies he does not have small piece of land for his grave.
In such circumstances if he opposes jagirdar or nominates his own representative or he votes against the landlord, the landlord will subject him to forceful eviction from the land.
It is an old custom that the peasants are forced to favor their landlord. They are considered duty bound to vote for the man who happens to be their landlords. If we do not do so we wil die unfed, we will be forced to die along with our hungry families.
In such conditions no peasant will vote against his landlord. Neither he will support anyone else than his jagirdar, because everyone is aware of the consequences to follow.
Even during the British rule over the Indo-Pak sub-continent, a few seats had been reserved for laborers but after that laborers of Pakistan could not get even that right.
