KARACHI (Web Desk) – Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chairman Altaf Hussain on Monday morning resigned as the party chief and announced that he no longer wanted to run the party affairs. However, he took back his decision after the party workers rejected his idea of resigning.
“I do not have energy or patience to run the party affairs,” Altaf Hussain said during his telephonic address from London and urged to the workers to dissolve the ‘movement’ and concentrate on running Khidmat-e-Khalq Foundation (KKF) to serve mankind, the party’s charity oraganisation.
Just before deciding to sack a few workers in order to ‘cleanse’ the party, the MQM chief had claimed that his decision was final this time and all party activities should be halted from now on.
“I will not be addressing the workers from now on,” he further said.
The MQM chief was apparently unhappy about the party leaders’ reaction on allegations hurled at him by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan.
He said the workers can choose another leader with consensus.
The party workers, however, refused to abide by his latest decision and chanted slogans in Hussain’s favour. “I cannot do everything alone in the party,” said the MQM chief.
Hussain has repeatedly made similar decisions in recent past, only to take them back on workers’ insistence.
