Karachi: The Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, has announced the party will launch a decisive agitation from Lahore on January 5 to get rid of the present government of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in the country.
The PPP Chairman made the announcement while addressing a massive public gathering in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, Larkana, which was held to mark the 14th death anniversary of his mother and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
“We will now be based in Lahore as the campaign to get rid of the present government will start from the same city where our [political party] was established,” said Bilawal.
He said for the same purpose, a meeting of the central executive committee of the PPP will be held in Lahore on January 5 - which is also the birthday of the founder of the party and former PM Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was hanged by the military government of Pakistan in 1979.
He mentioned that the Opposition had defeated the ruling party in the recently held by-elections, Senate, and local government elections in the country.
He predicted that the next PM and chief ministers of the provinces after forthcoming general elections in the country would belong to the Peoples Party.
Federalism, principle of equality, and Islam
Bilawal said the PPP had always believed in power of the masses as its politics in Pakistan always stood for federalism, principle of equality, and Islam.
He said the PPP had never attempted to seek any undemocratic mean to strike a deal with anyone to come to power.
The PPP Chairman said he had plans to visit areas in every province of Pakistan to spread the message of late leaders of the party, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto.
He said the top leaders of the PPP, including himself, former president Asif Ali Zardari, Faryal Talpur, and Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, would go to each part of the country for the purpose.
He recalled that the former PPP-led federal government had come to power when there had been global economic recession but even then, the Party’s regime had been able to stabilise the national economy while projects like the Benazir Income Support Programme, China Pakistan Economic Corridor, and Pakistan-Iran gas pipeline were launched.
He lamented that the high taxation rate, unprecedented hike in the prices of essential commodities, increasing unemployment, and poverty during the present regime had made labourers, farmers, and middle-income families in the country suffer.
Bilawal declared that only the manifesto and ideology of the PPP would act as a saviour for the suffering masses in the country.
