Bahawalpur - PML-N President Mian Nawaz Sharif said that with the public support his party would come into power to serve the masses more devotedly than it did in the past.
Addressing a public gathering in Yazman tehsil of Bahawalpur, Nawaz declared that if he were elected prime minister, he would not sit in the Prime Minister’s House but with the people to resolve their problems. “Rely on us and vote the PML-N for the continuity of the policies started by Mian Shahbaz Sharif as Punjab chief minister for public welfare and prosperity.” He said that Shahbaz wanted to become the federal minister for water and power to resolve the energy crisis on priority basis.
He urged the public to vote for the PML-N candidates as they had the excellent track record of public service.
He said: “We would introduce new policies to overcome unemployment and issue loans to skilled people and concrete efforts would be made to resolve energy crisis for stable national economy. Smooth supply of irrigation water will be ensured for the promotion of agriculture sector and special projects would be introduced for Cholistan.”
He said that currently Pakistan had been facing a number of challenges and ‘we had to resolve these issues on priority for making a strong Pakistan’. “There were no bomb blasts and loadshedding of gas and electricity in the country but former governments had dragged the country into this crisis.
“The PML-N would work for restoring national pride and accelerate the progress in every field. We were over burdened by foreign loans which badly damaged our economy. The PML-N would work hard to overcome the crisis for the better future of the nation,” the former premier said.
He said that Shahbaz Sharif, as the Punjab chief minister, did remarkably well and started various projects of public welfare, adding ‘we wanted to continue our public service policies to make the country a developed state’.
He vowed to root out corruption: “We would not allow commissions on development deals and people could easily judge our past and present as we would not make false claims.”
He demanded action against former president Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf according to the law, saying that he was a national criminal who should not be freed because he had damaged the national institutions.
He said that his government would keep cordial relationship with the army but the past chapter should be closed and no such moves should happen in future that had disfigured the Constitution.
He claimed that the era of real democracy would start on May 11, which would bring prosperity in the country.