our staff reporter
sadiqabad - PTI candidate Rafiq Haider and PPP candidates Syed Murtaza Mehmood, Tariq Mehmood Khan and Ibraheem Khalil Leghari held separate public meetings in the tehsil to persuade the local people to vote for their respective party in the forthcoming general elections, while criticising their opponents.
Addressing public meetings under political campaign, the PTI candidate for NA-197 said that the PPP and the PML-N-led governments remained failed to resolve the people’s grievances especially during the last five-year tenure, and wooed the public with his party’s promises. He said that the people of Sadiqabad were completely deprived of a drop of water and the sewerage system was also dilapidated and poor as sewer was witnessed accumulated in the streets and roads because of clogged drains. “The PPP and the PML-N have failed to resolve the people’s problems therefore the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf would get thumping victory in the forthcoming general elections under the leadership of Imran Khan,” said Rafiq Haider Leghari, the PTI candidate for constituency NA-197.
He said, “Under the leadership of Imran Khan, all the national problems would be resolved. The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and PPP-led alliance are afraid of the increasing popularity of the PTI but the tsumani would washed away corruption, plundering and the commission mafia. Insha’Allah, the PTI will bring forward honest leadership.” “People’s revolution has become inevitable. Now, no political party could hoodwink the Pakistani nation. The PTI has started preparations for the forthcoming general elections,” he said. “The PTI’s manifesto is to serve the people, resolve the national crises such as loadshedding, price hike, unemployment and lawlessness, to ensure honourable status for Pakistan in the world, to get separated from the so-called war against terrorism imposed by the US and to eliminate terrorism from the country.”
Separately, the PPP candidates for NA-197, PA-296 and PA-197 said that held meetings at different areas of Kot Sanjar Khan, Chak 160-P and urged the participants to vote for their party candidates in the forthcoming general elections. Syed Murtaza Mehmood, Tariq Mehmood Khan and Ibraheem Khalil, the candidate for the constituencies respectively made political promises with the people to woo them for their party.
The PPP leaders here made various promises regarding public welfare, stability of national economy and elimination of prevailing crises as the forthcoming general elections are around the corner.
They also said that Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had strengthened the country by launching the nuclear programme and President Zardari had signed these projects which would strengthen the national economy. The PPP is the martyrs’ party and it never compromised on its principles and faced dictators. Its leaders opted for gallows but never compromised on the national dignity, nor did they reached agreements with dictators and left the country, they said. They urged the people to vote for the PPP in the forthcoming general elections to extend the vision of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto. They claimed that the PPP had become an undefeatable political power in Sadiqabad tehsil. They expressed the hope the all the PPP candidates will win the general elections with heavy majority of votes. They also appealed to the party office-bearers and activists to work for the success of party candidates with unity to complete the mission of ZAB and BB.