Sukkur: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman and former Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Sunday said that the coalition parties are scared and want to run away from the elections, but it was not the PPP’s training that they would not be involved in any election. Step back from the competition.
Addressing the inauguration ceremony of a water filtration plant in Hussainabad area of Hyderabad on Sunday, Bilawal said that his party is never afraid of elections. We have fought elections carrying dead bodies on our shoulders. (But) if some of our allies are running away from the election, let them run. They are afraid; They ran away from the local government elections, ran away from the by-elections, and maybe now they are afraid of the general elections.
Bilawal said that if his party comes to power in the next general elections, he will regularize slums across the country like in Sindh and allot slum plots to the residents. He said that if the bureaucracy and judges can get plots, then the poor also have the right to get plots to build their houses.
Addressing the residents of Kutchhi villages across the country, he said, “This was my grandfather’s promise to the people, and my mother’s dream, and I promise you that if I get a chance, I will help the people living in Kutchhi. I will give the ownership rights of the land. Settlements everywhere in the country.
He said that if the direction of the country’s economy is to be corrected, money has to be put in the pockets of common people. The poor people and backward classes of the country have to get their rights. He further said that the economy will not benefit unless the purchasing power of the people increases.
The PPP Chairman said that all the provinces were affected by the unusual rains last year, but only in Sindh the flood victims were given the ownership rights of houses and land. “More than two million families have benefited from this project, while ownership rights have been given to the women of the family. We want to take this program to other provinces of the country,” he pointed out.
Chairman Bilawal said that he tried his best to convince the MQMP to contest local body elections and not give their place to incompetent people, but they retreated out of fear. Even they could not save their two towns. He said that PTI does politics of division and hatred. Just as we wiped out PTI from Hyderabad, we will wipe it out from the whole country.
He further said that we will confiscate the security money of Imran Khan in the same way as it was confiscated in Hyderabad, Malir and Multan.
The PPP chairman claimed that the MQM did not act on its own when it was in power and blamed the provincial government. He said that MQM leaders should be asked what they have done for Hyderabad.
Bilawal said that the People’s Party will never compromise on the supremacy of the Constitution and Parliament as well as the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens to make Pakistan a prosperous and strong federal democratic state.
In his message on the occasion of the 75th birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation, he paid tribute to Quaid-e-Azam and said that he was a charismatic leader and thinker born in centuries. He said that Quaid-i-Azam’s pro-democracy ideology, tolerant thinking and vision of a modern Islamic welfare state will always be a beacon of light for the nation.
On the other hand, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) rejected the allegation that the party is afraid of the elections. PMLN leader Javed Latif, in response to a question, said that it has been the history of Pakistan Muslim League that it has always supported timely elections. . He always followed the constitution and law and sacrificed his governments thrice in the path of democracy and constitution.
Responding to Bilawal’s allegation that the alliance partners are running away from the elections and that they are afraid of the elections, he said that first of all, PMLN has never been an ally of PPP. “It was a national government that was formed after the collapse of the PTI government, and various parties, including the PML-N and the PPP, were part of that government.”
He said that even then PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif and other party leaders wanted immediate elections. However, due to some reasons, the PMLN, later, agreed to form the national government and complete the term of the assemblies.
He said that in the present circumstances, when it was agreed in the Council of Common Interests (CCI) forum that elections would be held after the completion of the delimitation process, there was no reason to object.
He said that if Bilawal succeeds in securing a date for early elections, PMLN will be the first party to welcome him and give full credit to the PPP chairman. However, he added, the PMLN is eyeing the elections in February, and is preparing accordingly. If the election date is announced for November December, Nawaz Sharif will return to Pakistan by the next flight.
Meanwhile, MQMP leader Anees Qaim Khani, while reacting to Bilawal Bhutto’s statement, said that the world is laughing at Bilawal’s statement regarding the mayorship of Karachi and Hyderabad. He said that the local body seats were won by the People’s Party as a result of MQM’s boycott and there will be smoke of rigging. Ever since the establishment of the People’s Party, the citizens of Karachi and Hyderabad have always rejected the People’s Party. They said that the party that broke the country by not recognizing the election results of 1970 should not teach democracy.
On the other hand, Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan Senior Deputy Convener Syed Mustafa Kamal said that the quota system in Sindh was implemented 50 years ago by the then ruler which actually led to division between Sindhis and Muhajirs. He expressed these views while addressing a meeting of workers in Liaquatabad on Sunday.
He said that there was a long struggle to end this quota system spanning 40 years. He alleged that today the situation is even worse as the migrants are not even getting their quota and people from outside Karachi and Hyderabad are being given admission and jobs through fake domicile.
Kamal said that for more than 15 years, the people of Karachi have no water, employment and education due to the biased government of the Sindh government of the Pakistan People’s Party under a deliberate conspiracy.
Later, former federal minister and MQMP coordination committee member Aminul Haq said that MQM is fighting in a more organized manner than before and it will liberate Sindh, especially Karachi, from the forced occupation of People’s Party.
