SUKKUR: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that Imran Khan celebrated the destruction of three years of PTI’s government.
Bilawal Bhutto while addressing the media in Sukkur said that only Peoples Party can give tough time to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), adding that Imran Khan only targeted PPP and its leadership was put in the jails.
He said that Imran Khan only provides relief to the rich, petrol and electricity prices are being increased every month.
Chairman PPP said that PTI promised to provide 10 million jobs, instead they snatched livelihood of the poor people.
He said Imran Khan also promised to construct 5 million homes for the poor adding that PM’s house in Bani Gala was regularized but the houses of the poor in the slumps (Kachi Abadi) were demolished.
Bilawal said that if Imran Khan would have come in the power after winning the election he would have solved problems of the people.
“Peoples Party has a history of providing jobs to the people, “he said.
Earlier Bilawal Bhutto Zardari while addressing party workers said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) knows that patwaris and maulana are no threat to its government.
Bilawal said that only PPP is standing firm against the incumbent government as jiyalas know how to face puppets as well as terrorists.
Taking a jibe at PML-N leadership, Bilawal said that if Opposition Leader is from PPP, he is sent to jail but if the post is held by someone from Lahore, he continues to enjoy his life.
PPP Chairman further said that this is last government of PTI and soon PPP will form government and asked party workers to get ready to save the country.
He further said that Peoples Party has always advocated for the rights of farmers, stood with poor and offered sacrifices for democracy.
PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Monday took a jibe at the opposition alliance Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) rally in Karachi a day earlier, saying “maybe the rally would have been more effective if they (PDM) gave women permission to participate.”
Addressing a press conference in Sukkur, he said he could not comment on whether the PDM rally — the alliance’s first power show after a months-long lull — was “successful”, adding that the PPP believed all democratic parties should play their role.
However, it would have been “more effective” if the PDM allowed women to participate in the rally, he said.
“This is not Afghanistan. This is Karachi, capital of Sindh,” he remarked.
He questioned how a country and a city could be run when “even a home cannot be run without a woman”, recalling that Pakistan was the first Muslim country to appoint a female prime minister.
No society can progress until men and women are equal participants in economy and politics, the PPP chairperson said. “Maybe this was a reason that Karachi rejected them (PDM) and that [an] impression could not be built as in the past.”
However, there was “more time” and the PDM would hold more events, he said. “Our best wishes are with them — that the government is harmed from their movement instead of benefitted because till now, we think the government is benefitting from the PDM’s way of [doing] politics.”
He shared that he had asked Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah to talk to PDM president and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif and inform them that “we are present if they need anything.”
‘PPP showed way to whole country to get rid of PM’
Bilawal said the PPP had “showed a way to the whole country to get rid of Prime Minister Imran Khan” when it managed to make former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani win in the Senate polls in March instead of PTI’s Abdul Hafeez Shaikh.
He said that if the other opposition parties agreed to “first attack Punjab and then go the national level, then this government will go home”.
