PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari stated on Monday that the party will launch a decisive effort against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf government on January 5 next year, beginning with a demonstration in Lahore, the party’s previous citadel.
He asked the “jyalas” to roll up their sleeves and slam the “puppet government,” as he called it.
“The time has come to launch a battle against the puppet dictatorship,” he declared during a public gathering in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, a tiny village in Sindh’s Larkana district, to commemorate former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s 14th death anniversary.
Bilawal told party workers, “We need to realize the dream of Benazir Bhutto and revive this party across the country to restore the rule of real democratic forces.”
Asif Ali Zardari, the PPP’s co-chairman and former president, PPP Sindh President Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, and other party leaders also spoke at the gathering.
The PPP’s central executive committee meeting, which was supposed to take place in Larkana, has been postponed. The PPP chairman said that the meeting will now be held in Lahore on January 5, the birthday of former Prime Minister and PPP founder Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.
Bilawal claimed that the country was facing a slew of problems, including inflation and “poor governance,” as a result of “various modus operandi” used to rig elections.
Furthermore, he remarked, “There is no freedom of speech and no real democracy in the country. We restored democracy in the country and restored the 1973 Constitution in the shape of the 18th Amendment.”
Bilawal said that his party strengthened the country’s provinces in accordance with the late PPP founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s vision, a move that he claimed allowed the previous PML-N government to construct infrastructures such as the Metro Bus and Orange Line train in Lahore. “Through the NFC (National Finance Commission) grant, we gave the provinces financial autonomy,” he said.
People in Pakistan were struggling to make ends meet, according to the PPP chairman, and poverty and unemployment had reached unprecedented highs under Prime Minister Imran Khan’s administration.
Moreover, he remarked, “People’s hardships and economic woes of the country will never end as long as the country is being ruled by puppet rulers.”
In response to media reports, Bilawal debunked claims that the PPP was making a deal with the establishment in order to gain power. “PPP does not believe in deal politics. We rely only on the generosity of others. He stressed, “We can never turn to non-democratic politics.”
Anti-Government movement
While asking party officials to take steps to resurrect the party in various regions of the country, Bilawal announced that he will soon travel to Punjab to spearhead an anti-government movement.
He said, “Time has come to announce a war against this puppet government. we will announce a movement to overthrow this government from Lahore (on January 5) where the foundation of this party was laid down.”
Only the PPP, according to Bilawal, can overthrow Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government with the support of the people and resolve the people’s problems. He assured the tense crowd, “We will build the next government and elect our chief ministers in all provinces.”
