M. Bilal Baseer Abbasi
MURREE: Chairman Pakistan People Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari addressed a mammoth rally of party workers in Kottli Sattian here on Sunday, as the PPP staged power show in the premier’s constituency, Kotlli Sattian an its adjoining areas Murree and Kahuta .
Bilawal Bhutto, while addressing to workers in the premier constituency add questioned on ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s slogan of ‘respecting the vote’.
He said Nawaz, who was disqualified as premier and head of the PML-N by the Apex Court of Pakistan in separate cases, has been raising the slogan of respecting the vote.
He said, Nawaz Sharif thinks that democracy linked to him only, but, actually he was the opening batsman of General Ziaul Haq.
In an apparent jibe at Maryam Nawaz, Bilawal said: “look now, we have stopped you”.
‘They are wind-up toys that bowed in unison,’ Nawaz hits back at opposition.
Referring to Nawaz’s recent tirade against the opposition parties, Bilawal said the PML-N leader, and not the PPP leader, is the biggest wound up toy, whose key is broken at the present.
The PPP chief also questioned the democratic credentials of Nawaz, reminding him of his role in various incidents, including anti-PPP moves in the past such as supporting former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s ouster by the Supreme Court.
Talking about Nawaz’s post-disqualification slogan of ‘respect the vote’, he said Nawaz Sharif, who failed to respect Parliament during his tenure as prime minister now seeks respect for the vote.
Bilawal also criticised the federal government’s plans to privatise state-run Pakistan International Airlines and Pakistan Steel Mills.
While addressing to a gathering in Kotli Sattian, the PPP chairman recalled the relationship of the tehsil with the PPP.
Turning his guns towards the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Bilawal criticised the provincial government of KP plan to build a rapid bus in Peshawar after criticising similar projects by the Punjab government.
Bilawal, referring to the PTI chairman said Imran has introduced the terms ‘good corrupt’ and ‘bad corrupt’ in our politics, said referring to the PTI chairman.
He claimed all of the PTI’s promises of ‘change’, its election slogan five years ago, could not materialise and turned out to be hollow promises. Senior party leaders, including former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, former Senate chairman Nayyar Hussain Bukhary and former MNA Mehreen Raja, are also on stage. They also addressed workers before Bilawal took the podium.
The PPP leader has been holding several rallies and addressing workers and supporters across the country as part of the party’s recently-launched membership campaign.
