LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami Emir Sirajul Haq has said the successive governments have desperately failed to protect the rights of millions of labourers, small farmers, daily wagers and other working class, demanding fulfilment of demands of trade unions in the budget.

The reality is that the capitalists and feudal lords deceitfully represented the labourers and farmers, and the change would only happen when the people from the communities would reach the parliament, he said while addressing a May Day rally on The Mall on Monday. The National Labour Federation organised the event.

The JI, he said, proposed the national vote after Eidul Azha, as the elections were the only solution to the prevailing crises. `I hope the sanity would prevail and the PDM and the PTI would reach consensus on the election.

He said the political leadership must put aside their mutual differences and evolve an agreement on polls in country`s interest.

He demanded the government address the concerns of the people of Karachi and other parts in the ongoing census. He asked the Balochistan government to release Gwadar Movement leader Hidayatur Rehman.