PPP will make next govt: Bilawal

The Bhutto scion urges women to join PPP and start working on all levels

HYDERABAD:

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Wednesday claimed that his party would form the next government in the country, scorning the incumbent government for “utterly failing to fulfil its promises”.

The PPP chairman, while addressing a ceremony organised by Sindh Rural Support Organization, said that despite Prime Minister Imran Khan’s boasting about the social relief programmes, the premier remained “still in dark about the pain and misery his government has inflicted on the people in last three years”.

Meanwhile, Bilawal claimed, his party's social protection initiative Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) was providing substantial financial relief to millions of people.He said PM Imran had promised that he would build 5 million houses but instead houses of the poor were demolished.

"In the N-league's government, the face of Nawaz Sharif was printed on the BISP cards while in the PTI's regime, they removed the name of Benazir from the card believing that this will make the people forget her."

“The Benazir Income Support Program introduced by the former president and PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari was ridiculed but the world has appreciated the Program,” he added.

He said, “The PTI government has done nothing new but only copied PPP, adding that PPP government will run the income support program in a better way.”

He encouraged women to join politics and advised them to launch their careers through the platform of the local government system which offered reserved seats for women. He said the political journey which will start from the union council level can go up to the district, provincial and national levels.

On Tuesday, the Bhutto scion scorned the leaders of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), saying if the alliance wanted to advance its objective of overthrowing the incumbent government then “they should first resign from the assemblies en masse”.