almotamar.net - Head of the Social Affairs Office of the hardliner Islamist-oriented Yemeni Congregation for Reform Party (Islah), one of the opposition parties in Yemen, Engineer Abdullah Saatar delivered a lecture in a mosque in the city of Mahweet Tuesday that aroused resentment of the citizens in general.

Reliable sources clarified to almotamar.net that sheikh Saatar tried to invest the lecture by touching on the people sentiments under allegation of fighting corruption and to employ money and ammunition to support "struggle of his party the Islah" in the upcoming elections and mobilization of sit-ins against the authority.

Saatar alleged in his lecture that the projects of roads, dams, schools and infrastructure of the state are gifts offered by European countries and that the state does not spend any budget for building projects. He considered that electing representatives of his party in the upcoming parliamentary elections as a duty, calling not to nominate representatives of the other parties, ignoring that his party is part of the Joint Meeting Parties bloc.

The sources said on the lecture of sheikh Saatar inside the mosque changed it into a propaganda political one far from any religious themes. The sources highlighted as part of the Islah party employment of the mosques for partisan interests.

Sheikh Saatar is considered as one of prominent hardliner Islah leaders that rove the country propagating for his party and raise money from citizens under religious names with the aim of financing the electoral campaigns of his party.

The sources were amazed by the official silence by the endowments office in the governorate and the local authority regarding the Islah leaderships use of mosques for election campaigns.

Sheikh Saatar inaugurated the campaign of his party in the governorate of Ibb by the end of last July by severely assailing the Slafi religious group, accusing them of violating the religion and considered their stand against the Islah especially in the elections as coming under violation of the religion. Saatar alleged that the people have to elect candidates of his party only and not those of other parties, including candidates of the JMP that are allied to the Islah party.