LAHORE, Aug 13: MQM chief Altaf Hussain on Sunday warned ‘chaudrys’ and feudals to be prepared for the D-Day as the Muttahida Qaumi Movement would spare nobody looting the national wealth.

Addressing a public meeting at Minar-i-Pakistan by phone, the MQM leader lashed out at what he called the anti-democratic forces for hurting the country’s interests.

“Every one should know that all of the state institutions, including the army, are run on people’s money, and no one has the right to rule the country indefinitely. Once the MQM voted into power — which it will soon — it will get back all the looted wealth from these chaudhrys and feudals to spend it on people’s welfare.”

He said his party was gaining popularity as political workers from other parties were now joining the MQM in droves.

The MQM, he pointed out, had held its first public meeting at Nishtar Park, Karachi, in August 1988. Now it was holding its first meeting at Lahore in the same month and would soon be a force to be reckoned with in the province.

Mr Hussain found roots of all ills in the feudal set-up, saying democracy could not flourish where feudalism ruled the roost nor could there be any meaningful development.

The MQM, he said, had not been “manufactured by the army”, rather it came into being out of oppressed people’s wishes.

“The feudals, the generals and the capitalists have joined hands to deprive 98 per cent of the population of their constitutional rights, but the time has come for the change,” he said and added: “The MQM has entered Punjab to change the system.”

He promised that the MQM would give rights to tenants of Okara military farms and demanded an end to injustice to kiln workers and killing of women in the name of honour.