Rahim Yar Khan - Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Thursday lashed out at the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leadership, saying PML-N’s ‘deceitful policy’ can no longer work.
He asked the party to ‘respect’ the vote and use it against the government.
“Your duplicitous policy will no longer work, either you should play your role as an Opposition party or accept that you are the government’s facilitators,” the PPP chairman said as he addressed a workers’ convention in Rahim Yar Khan. He said the people of Punjab will reject politics of ‘hypocrisy.’ He said that if the opposition parties do nothing against Buzdar government, it will prove that their politics is neither of resistance nor of reconciliation but of hypocrisy.
"The people of Punjab will reject politics of hypocrisy. Dual politics does not stand a chance. Either you have to challenge the incapable, failed and illegitimate government or have to accept that you are the facilitator of this selected government," the PPP leader said in an apparent reference to the PML-N large number of members in the provincial assembly.
"You have to send the Buzdar government home and then the selected prime minister will flee automatically. On one hand, you talk about respecting votes and on the other, you do not want to use your votes." Bilawal said that his party was gaining popularity day by day and will form the next government not only in the centre but also in Punjab province. The people of Pakistan, he said, are yearning for a change. "They have experienced the PML-N and are now experiencing the government of Imran Khan. They are able to distinguish the difference between performance of these two governments and the performance of the PPP government in the past. Now a former sportsman is destroying our country." The PPP chairman recalled the leadership of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, saying that he gathered the entire Muslim world in Lahore. "When he visited the United States, the US president said that ‘if you were a US citizen, you would have been a part of my cabinet’, the Quaid-e-Awam had replied that if he was a US citizen, he would have been the US president."