Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has endorsed the PTI’s demand for holding protests and rallies.

He said this in his National Assembly speech on Monday after PTI MNA Asad Qaiser raised the issue before the speaker that his party was not allowed to hold rallies and their leaders were being arrested.

“Asad Qaiser’s request is fair. Protesting is his [party’s] right and I endorse his request,” he said and added that the issue was not limited to whether the parties can hold public gathering events or not.

The PTI leader had highlighted that it was their constitutional right to hold protests and rallies.

According to Fazl, the problem was about the “state of the country”.

He warned against any attempts to stop his party’s protest in Karachi and Peshawar next month which he described as “Million March”.

“We have decided to fight against slavery and fight under the Constitution and law. We will have Million March on May 2 in Karachi and next in Peshawar on May 9,” he said.

“If someone tried to stop us so, they will invite trouble for themselves. They cannot stop sea of people. These effort will continue and we hope that you [NA Speaker Ayaz Sadiq] will be with us,” he added.

Fazl has slammed the results of February 8 general elections and expressed concerns over the state of affairs, stressing the need for people’s representation.

He has held rallies to press authorities to allow “public’s representation” in the country while making a veiling reference to the country’s establishment.

In his speech, the JUI-F chief also spoke in the same wavelength and urged ruling parties to join him in streets and leave Parliament.

Several people were raising questions on Parliament, he said and wondered whether it was represented by the people or the establishment. Fazl said that politicians were blamed for the mistakes of military generals in the past.

He went on to add that after the February 8 general elections, defeated candidates were worried and victors were not satisfied with the results.

In a veiling reference to the establishment, he said that those who should “have been be under you have become your leader [Aqa] and you are running on their orders. We cannot even pass a bill.”

He claimed that the state had no control on Baloch and Pakhtun belts. “Unfortunately, I want to say that Pakistan is an unsafe state and if the state is unsafe then who is responsible. We made a policy against terrorism, but no change seen in terrorism.”

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Fazl claimed that the situation was different in the above mentioned areas as police stations were closed after Magrib prayers, alleging that armed groups take control of such areas.

“I ask Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to lets go together in public and leave parliament and give the government to PTI if it is the larger group.”