ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: Jamaat-i-Islami Amir Qazi Hussain Ahmed alleged on Monday that the parties participating in the polls were in league with generals in order to gain benefits from the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) and hide their corruption of billions of rupees.

He advised the political parties which had left the APDM to contest the elections to reconsider their decision because they would gain nothing and would not be able to form their government.

Speaking at a reception held by the Islamabad Bar Association, Qazi Hussain claimed the masses were now becoming aware of their fundamental rights and this would bring about an Islamic revolution in the country.

The historic resistance by independent judges and lawyers against the tyrannical rule had set the stage for a mass movements, he said.

He called upon political workers, legal fraternity, students, and members of civil society to unite to make the poll boycott a success.

He said that independent judiciary and independent judges were not acceptable to some leaders who had tried to undermine the judiciary during their tenures and even had organised attacks on the Supreme Court. They promised to the nation to boycott elections and then all of a sudden turned their backs on the brave judges who had sacrificed their service and official position for the cause of independence of the judiciary and upheld their oath of protecting the Constitution, he said.

Qazi Hussain criticised the larger political parties for their failure to understand the mood of the public and instead joining hands with the Musharraf regime to get amnesty in corruption cases. The MMA chief said the polls were a fraud and the Jamaat-i-Islami would never contest elections under President Pervez Musharraf.

Earlier, Islamabad Bar Association president Haroonur Rashid and former Majlis-i-Amal MNA Mian Muhammad Aslam paid tribute to the parties boycotting the polls.